Welcome, I’m Landon Moore.
My father is a falconer, and raptors have always been a part of my life. I grew up between the mountains of Ecuador and the plains of Texas, volunteering at wildlife rehabilitation centers and flying hawks after school.
This led me to study wildlife biology at the University of Idaho where I met my wife, Marcie Logsdon, while she was studying veterinary medicine just 7 miles away at Washington State University. Summer work included hacking Harpy Eagles in Panama and remote field work in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. After graduation I continued working as a field biologist doing everything from radio tracking Sage Grouse to surveying amphibians in remote mountain lakes. Once Marcie graduated we married and after a short Wyoming-based adventure in sheep ranching, moved to Pullman, WA. to facilitate Marcie’s career as an avian and wildlife veterinarian back at WSU. She got her falconry permit as soon as we had a stable place to build a mews and her first Red-Tailed Hawk not long after.
This more stable lifestyle precluded biological field work, so I began working in agricultural pest bird abatement with a team of mostly Aplomado Falcons throughout Central Washington. In this time I met the Boyd family and began working for Boyd’s Bird Co. Inc. in the winters. As part of my compensation they provided me with quail that did wonders for the performance of my abatement team, and I began breeding Aplomado Falcons using Boyd Quail as the primary food source. In 2018, the Boyd family decided to move away from raising quail to pursue other business ventures.
I went looking for an equivalently safe and nutritious food source elsewhere, and came up with nothing. No one else was raising these remarkable little quail that my falcons thrived on. Before Boyd Bird Co. shut their doors for good I asked them to provide me with some of their breeding stock and they graciously agreed. To maintain a stable colony I knew I needed a much larger population than my Aplomado breeding project would require, so I gathered enough former Boyd’s customers to support a small business. The Boyd family generously rented me one of their old quail barns for the first few years, and in 2018 we launched Northwest Heritage Quail. There were several seasons where it was just my wife and I performing daily chores and processing quail. In 2023 we were able to move the quail into a new, purpose built facility just across the road. This new building is more biosecure, more energy efficient, and has even larger indoor flight pens for these athletic quail to fly in. This facility also has a bigger production capacity, allowing us to make the Boyd Quail available to more people who, like us, care deeply about nutrition and tradition. We are excited to share the Boyd Quail with you and the animals under your care. Our goal is to create a sustainable business that ensures these uniquely nutritious little quail are available for generations to come.
Happy Hawking,
-Landon Moore
Owner, Northwest Heritage Quail
