Quite a few Gambel’s quail west of Tucson, which I attribute to a fairly wet winter in 2019-2020. This year is drier so far, and I’ll bet there will be fewer quail next season unless we get plenty of rain in the next few months.
Nothing at all to do with “climate change”. It’s the weather.
Yes, and interesting the “climate change” threat, a permanent phenomenon, is cooling rather than warming. Oh well. I’ve read a probable cause rests with the wildfires, which causes much larger than usual plumes of smoke. This may have triggered an earlier than usual migration, most of the dead are migratory, at a time that cold conditions may have meant a low food supply.