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The article focuses on the evaluation of translocation efficacy and the survival rates, home range, and site fidelity of resident and translocated bobwhites in fragmented site in Marion County near Tazewell, Georgia. It collected and classified bobwhites during 2003 and 2004 wherein the known-fate and strata models were used. Moreover, it proposes that conservation strategies should focus on habitat restoration and improvement using translocation as a means to complement the strategy.

We describe primers and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) conditions to amplify 18 tetranucleotide microsatellite DNA loci in eastern bluebirds ( Sialia sialis). The primers were tested using individuals from two study sites in Georgia and South Carolina. Among individuals from the Georgia population ( n = 23), the primer pairs developed in this study yielded an average of 6.6 alleles per locus (range 2–12), an average observed heterozygosity of 0.56 (range 0.24–0.96) and an average polymorphic information content of 0.65 (range 0.3–0.86). Among individuals from the South Carolina population ( n = 19), the primer pairs yielded an average of 5.8 alleles per locus (range 2–9), an average observed heterozygosity of 0.56 (range 0.05–0.86) and an average polymorphic information content of 0.63 (range 0.29–0.83). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]