Game birds found include Canada goose, mallard duck, ruffed grouse, wild turkey, and bobwhite quail. Wildlife is abundant, including whitetail deer, turkey, bobwhite quail, coyote, bobcat, and waterfowl. Major game birds are the duck, goose, bobwhite quail, ruffed grouse, and wild turkey. Game birds include bobwhite quail, duck, wild turkey, and goose. The semidesert grassland supports the reintroduction of masked bobwhite quail and pronghorns. Other important wildlife species on the property include whitetail deer, wild turkey and bobwhite quail. Its seeds are also eaten by bobwhite quail and other game birds and squirrels. Bobwhite quail can also be infected. Flocks of bobwhite quail ("Colinus virginianus") may become infected with "Haemoproteus lophortyx". To a point, "M. cerifera" will also provide habitat for the northern bobwhite quail. Most also make good fodder for animals including bobwhite, turkey, grouse, deer, cattle and goats. Woodpecker, robin, sparrow, jay, bobwhite, and wren are Black Hills birds. California, Gambel, Bobwhite, Scaled quails, etc. are less common and are rarely kept as pets. The northern bobwhite is threatened across its range due to habitat loss and habitat degradation. It was used to enhance wildlife habitat, particularly for the northern bobwhite.