Long, BobWilliams, Christopher K.2023-12-112023-12-112011Long, B., and C. K. Williams. 2011. Mid-Atlantic Regional Issues in Bobwhite Conservation. Pages 171-177 in Palmer, W.E., T.M. Terhune, and D.F. McKenzie, eds. The National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative: A range-wide plan for recovering bobwhites. National Bobwhite Technical Committee Technical Publication, ver. 2.0, Knoxville, TN.https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/33680This book chapter was originally published in The National Bobwhite Technical Committee. 2011. Palmer, W.E., T.M. Terhune, and D.F. McKenzie (eds). The National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative: A range-wide plan for recovering bobwhites. National Bobwhite Technical Committee Technical Publication, ver. 2.0 , Knoxville, TN. The version of record is available at: https://www.quailcount.org/documents/nbci2_0/NBCIver2.0.pdf. © 2011 The Authors. Photography © 2011 sources credited with use of photographs. All rights reserved.The Mid-Atlantic region encompasses 5 states (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) and portions of 3 BCRs. The NBCI has identified 4.6 million, high-priority acres for bobwhite and bird conservation in these states totaling 14 million acres. Although these states lie on the northern fringe of current bobwhite range bobwhites were historically widespread and abundant in the region. Some of the steepest population declines have been recorded in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. For example since 1996 bobwhite populations in the Mid-Atlantic have declined 6%/year; within that, there are worrisome declines such as a 13%/year decline in New Jersey since 1980. The regional declines are especially troublesome when in 1966 the national Breeding Bird Survey recorded the highest densities of bobwhite in the country right in Delaware (Figure 22).en-USAttribution 3.0 United Stateslife on landBook chapter