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Watch Our Quail Go Free

Watch Our Quail Go Free

Watch Our Quail Go Free

Message from the Quail Team

We released 80 Bobwhite Quail for Mt Sinai Elementary School at Brookhaven State Park! The students’ enthusiasm is contagious, isn’t it? We have one more release on Thursday, Aug. 1 at Longwood Estate in Brookhaven. Join us!

To find our more about our Northern Bobwhite Quail Project, click here.  If your school would like to be part of our program to raise and release Northern bobwhite quail next year, click here to join our QuailMail list.

 

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Bobwhite Quail Releases 2024

Bobwhite Quail Releases 2024

Bobwhite Quail Releases 2024

Message from the Quail Team

Wow, what an amazing year!  We had over 1,700 quail eggs hatching over 40 classrooms  and libraries across Long Island hatch quail this year. We have 3 large pens holding the quail now getting them ready for release and are in the process of building a movable one at CEED. Please join us for one or more of our release dates below to cheer these little ones on as they enter the local natural habitats where they belong.

We would also like to give a huge shout out to our Quail Pen Volunteer Coordinators:

Jean Lentin – Caleb Smith State Park

Olive Archer – Town of Brookhaven Manorville Compost Facility

Mike Ring – Clark Botanic Garden

If you know or see any of these people, please thank them for the tremendous amount of time and effort managing the feeding and care of the quail.

Thank you as always for your support!

Get outside and enjoy nature!

Quail Release Dates

Join us at one or more of the following locations!

  • Friday Jul 19, 10:00 AM Brookhaven State Park
  • Tuesday Jul 23, 10AM North Hempstead Bike Path
  • Saturday Jul 27, 10AM Caleb Smith State Park
  • Tuesday Jul 30, 10am at CEED Washington Lodge
  • Thursday Aug 1, 10AM Longwood Estate

Eric Powers, CEED Site & Program Director

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Helping to raise quail for release

Helping to raise quail for release

Helping to raise quail for release

Join our conservation effort to help restore the Northern bobwhite quail to Long Island.  We need dedicated volunteers who will help care for our baby and juvenile quail as they grow and prepare for a natural life.

You’ll provide food & water, clean dishes, and keep pens tidy. You’ll also observe the quail, looking for injuries, Illness, bullying, anything out of the ordinary.  Check the pen for signs of damage from predators, ensure heating bulbs are working, and adjust temperature as needed.

Volunteers sign up for one day per week for a roughly 30-60 minute shift.  Morning shift any time between 7:30 and 10:00, your choice.  And evening shift any time between 3:00 and 6:00, your choice. May 15 – July 30. You’ll watch as the quail change from week to week, and then join us for their release in August! 

Three locations:

  • Town of Brookhaven Manorville Compost Facility
  • Clark Botanical Garden Albertson, NY
  • Caleb Smith State Park, Smithtown, NY

For more info, contact Eric Powers, 631-803-6780, CEEDLI.org/quail

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North Hempstead Quail Release Video!

North Hempstead Quail Release Video!

North Hempstead Quail Release Video!

Ranger Eric Powers and our entire Bobwhite Quail Project team of classrooms, libraries, and individuals can take pride in the release of 150 juvenile quail at the Hempstead Harbor Trail in North Hempstead recently.  The town made a wonderful video of the event, and released a Press Release as well.  Click below.  Thank you to all who took part in this effort to help rebuild native quail populations on Long Island.

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Bobwhite Quail Releases 2024

Bobwhite Quail Releases 2023

Bobwhite Quail Releases 2023

Next to hatching, this is the most exciting time of year for the Bobwhite Quail Project.  It’s time for Quail Releases.

The goal is to release these birds into their historical environments on Long Island. They’ll be graduating in July and starting their new lives in the wild. Join me, CEED Biologist, “Ranger” Eric Powers, founder of the Bobwhite Quail Project, as we release our juvenile quail back into their natural habitat. There, they will fill their ecological role of eating small, ground-dwelling bugs in our fields and forests, including a whole lot of ticks too!

Additionally, you can help by keeping house cats indoors and away from the Quail, or making a donation of time or money to help support CEED, the nature center that leads this important project. Release Dates and locations:

  • Wednesday July 19, 10am: Mt Sinai Elem School at Brookhaven State Park. 75 BWQ
  • Tuesday July 25, 11am: Town of North Hempstead at Hempstead Harbor Beach Trail. 50 BWQ from Clark Botanic Gardens + 100 BWQ from Smithtown Pens.
  • Tuesday July 25, 4:30pm: CEED at South Trail (Dennis Puleston Preserve). 100 BWQ from Smithtown Pens.
  • Thursday July 27, 1pm: Town of Brookhaven at the Longwood Estate. 100 BWQ.
  • Saturday July 29, 10am: CEED Release at Caleb Smith State Park. ALL REMAINING BWQ, est 500-600 BWQ. Those of you who participated in this project and donated Quail are encouraged to bring an animal carrier to this release in order to receive a small covey of Quail to have your own private release with just you and your class or library patrons, in another part of Caleb Smith State Park.

I hope everyone can make it to at least one of the releases! I hope to see you there.

Eric Powers, CEED Site & Program Director

 

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Bobwhite Quail Releases 2024

Commune with Quail

Commune with Quail

If you’ve ever seen young quail, or if you’ve met Robert (Bob) our CEED Bobwhite Quail ambassador, you know that quail are among the cutest, most interesting Long Island natives. This is your chance to learn about them and meet them up close.  We need volunteers who will dedicate one hour a week for a couple of months to help take care of our young quail before release. The pens are located in Manorville, Smithtown, and North Hempstead. We need one volunteer every morning and every afternoon, seven days a week at all three pens. Pick the time that suits your schedule, and help give our quail a good chance to restore Long Island’s wild quail population.

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