Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds in the pheasant family Phasianidae, or in the family Odontophoridae. The below address the Old World species (Euope, Africa, Asia) .
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Quail - Bobwhite
Alternative Name
Bobwhite Scientific Name: Colinus virginianus
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Common Quail: Upon attaining an age of 6-8 weeks, this quail breeds on open arable farmland and grassland across most of Europe and Asia, laying 6-18 eggs in a ground nest. The eggs take from 16-18 days to hatch.
Quail
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common name for a variety of small game birds related to the partridge, pheasant, and more distantly to the grouse.
Quails and Partridges there is over a 100 different species just in the world old . living naturally from East Africa to New Zealand. The majority found in tropical Asia to South Africa. They are small rounded birds with small legs and pointed winges.
Quail
Common Quail
Both Sexes
Tiny, yellow-brown streaked bird.
Quail - Family Odontophoridae
Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus. Breeder. Common to fairly common in all seasons and regions. Found on farms, along woodland edges, and in brushy open country habitats and old fields. Low Conservation Concern.
Quail Diet
To assure healthy quails, it is essential to feed them a high protein diet. Feed a proper balanced diet to your birds to assure their healthy life. Small insects and seeds are among the bird's favorite foods.
Quail
A small gamebird - the combination of its stocky body and long, pointed wings makes it quite distinctive. Its upperparts are brown, streaked and barred with buff, while its underparts are a warm buff... More...
Red-legged partridge ...
Button Quail
Name "button' probably because chicks are size of a "button'
Can be found throughout the world
Have been kept for hundreds of years, once even used in Asia for 'cock fighting' ...
African Quailfinch Ortygospiza fuscocrissa
Described by: Heuglin (1863)
Alternate common name(s): Ethiopian Quailfinch, Dark-vented Quailfinch
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
The Scaled Quail (Callipepla squamata) is a resident of south and west Texas, and most of New Mexico. It also occurs in parts of Arizona, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado as well as a wide area in northern Mexico.
Quail are gallinaceous birds, that is they dwell on the ground, scratch for their food and have crops and gizzards. Weed seeds, waste grain and insects constitute the backbone of their intake.
Quail
The name quail designates birds belonging to two divisions of the pheasant family, Phasianidae: the New World quail, subfamily Odontophorinae ...
Quail prefer open country and brushy borders. In spring the hen lays about 12 roundish eggs, which the male may help incubate. The young remain with their parents the first summer.
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A Beginners Guide to North American Quail ...
Quail Eggs and Clover, Precocial and Altricial Young, Flock Defense
REFERENCES:
Gutierrez, 1979-80; Gutierrez et al., 1983; Leopold, 1977; Zink et al., 1987.
Quail are social birds that live in groups called "coveys." A covey usually includes from 10 to 30 birds, which forage for food together and roost together overnight.
This quail has become very popular to keep and breed; numerous mutations have been developed. They are quite hardy once they have adjusted to their surroundings and will keep the bottom of an aviary spotless.
Button Quails are not perching birds, and their feet are made for walking. So when putting your Quail in an aviary, make sure you remove the wire bottom. Instead, put wood shavings, shredded newspaper, or hamster/gerbil bedding.
Mountain Quail have a varied diet, employing a number of foraging strategies to utilize different seasonally abundant food sources.
Gambel's Quail (Female), Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Near San Antonio, New Mexico
Photograph by Alan And Elaine Wilson. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
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Mountain Quail has chestnut face, unscaled belly, and gray crown. Gambel's Quail lacks pale forehead, stippled nape and scaly belly.
Bobwhite Quail
Quail were observed in lesser numbers but were still obvious on the ranch
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The name "quail," with roots in Middle Dutch through Old French, is related to "quack," an allusion to the vocalization of the European quail.
Gambel's Quail at Dawn
A Gambel's Quail perches in brush in the light of early morning near San Pedro House. These quail are more skittish than most of the other birds, so it's hard to get very close to them.
California Quail was introduced into central Chile in 1870 as a game-bird and it now seems fairly common as far south as Puerto Montt. Being a game bird, it is very flighty and quite difficult to get close enough for a decent photo.
Chestnut Quail-thrush - profile
Scientific name: Cinclosoma castanotus
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
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California Quail Photos
A species of, well, California and the West, and not found in South Dakota. These photos are from Point Reyes National Seashore, north of San Francisco, and in the eastern Cascades in Oregon.
The California Quail (Callipepla californica, also known as the valley quail) is a common bird from the western USA. Quails congregate in groups of 10 to 20 birds, called coveys.
The California Quail (Callipepla californica) is a member of the Phasianidae family which consists of partridges, grouse, turkeys and quail.
Diet The California quail eats seeds, plant parts like buds and sometimes insects. They feed in flocks in the early morning.
Life Cycle Males often compete for a mate. They will mate with only one female.
The Northern Bobwhite, or Quail, is usually not found in heavily developed areas. It is a ground nester and needs the heavy cover of tall grasses, brambles, dense hedges, or brush piles. It will forage for seeds under feeders.
Quail, Asian Blue aka Chinese Painted Quail Coturnix chinensis Found: southeast Asia
There are approximately 10 different subspeices of this quail.
Photographed by: Dick Daniels at Butterfly World in Florida ...
Grouse, Quail, and Allies (GALLIFORMES)
Curassows and Guans (CRACIDAE)
New World Quail (ODONTOPHORIDAE)
Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys and Old World Quail (PHASIANIDAE) ...
The Brown Quail was self-introduced to the island after the restoration began. It is relatively common and I saw several ...
Quail thrushes and whipbirds (Eupetidae)
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Quantifying biodiversity: a phylogenetic perspective
Quantitative Distributional Data
Quaternary Geomorphology of Flinders Island ...
Quail-Doves are indeed cool birds from my experience with a couple species in Costa Rica. I had a very similar experience to yours with one running down the path in front of me. And love that Solitaire!
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Quail (unlabeled)
The Valley Quail (also known as the California Quail) is a plump bird with a forward-facing head plume.
Quetzal
The quetzal is a colorful rainforest bird with very long tail feathers.
QUAIL OR PARTRIDGE, Perdix virginiana, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. vi. p. 21.
PERDIX VIRGINIANA, Bonap. Syn., p. 124.
AMERICAN PARTRIDGE OR QUAIL, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 647.
VIRGINIAN PARTRIDGE, Perdix Virginiana, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 388;vol.
Rain quail are approximately 15 cm (Robbins, 1979; Harper, 1986) to 16 cm (Alderton, 1992) in length. The male's wing and tail measurements are 93 to 96 mm and 29 to 32 mm, respectively.
Gambel's Quail populations are reasonably stable, despite continued hunting. Perhaps the fact that they adapt well to suburban living keeps their numbers up, as many folks put out a "quail block" made of seeds to feed the local coveys.
The brown quail are of course foreigners, introduced to New Zealand as game birds in the 1860s and 1870s but the South Island liberations failed and now they are common only north of Auckland and in parts of the Bay of Plenty.
Aleutian Auk, Sea Quail, Wrinkle-Nose Auk
Bird Family :
Alcidae - Auks, dovekie, murres, guillemots, auklets, murrelets & puffins ...
Dark-backed wood-quail (Odontophorus melanonotus)
Information on the dark-backed wood-quail is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly... More 9 Images 0 videos ...
flying in dense stands of mature mesquite (Prosopis spp.), hackberry (Celtis occidentalis), wolfberry (Lycium spp.), and falsemesquite (Calliandra spp.) along sandy washes and around stock tanks, which constitutes habitat preferred by Gambel's quail ...
Bringing Back the Bobwhites with Teamwork, by Tony Young - Quail hunting in Florida - one of the most popular types of hunting during the 1950s, '60s and '70s - has changed.
Strategic Plan for Northern Bobwhite Restoration in Florida ...
Some of them inhabit forests and others the more open country; but setting aside size (which in this group varies from that of a quail to that of a large common fowl) there is an unmistakable uniformity of appearance among them as a whole, ...
Japanese quail eggs were emptied and refilled with materials in an attempt to mimic developed eggs and freshly laid eggs.
With further reference to the food habits of this bird, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (1940) received a complaint from a group of sportsmen resident in the southern states that this hawk was preying heavily on local quail.
The wild turkey, like other "gallinaceous" or chicken-like birds such as ring-necked pheasant, ruffed grouse, and bobwhite quail, is considered a "game bird".
Based upon the stomach contents of 42 foxes from Texas, the winter food consisted chiefly of small mammals (cottontails, cotton rats, pocket gophers, pocket mice), 56%; followed by insects, largely grasshoppers, 23%; and birds (doves, quail, ...
Most of these birds inhabit damp lowland grasslands, but a few range into the hills, including Manipur Bush-quail and Slenderbilled Babbler in the Manipur basin, and Grey-crowned Prinia, which is found to well over 1, ...
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The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, including the junglefowl (including chicken), Old World quail, francolins, monals and peafowl. The family is a large one, containing 38 genera and around 138 species.
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The order Galliformes is made of 263 species of game birds that together cover most of the world, excluding Antarctica, the desert regions of Africa, and the southern half of South America.
Chicks of partridges and other birds of the order Galliformes (partridges, chickens, and quail) sometimes use their wings in an unusual fashion. As they cannot yet fly, they often flee predators by running while furiously flapping their wings.
Occasionally, a quail egg can be offered to wild-caught specimens. If the snake likes it, one can be offered every couple of weeks.
It is a medium-large screech-owl that is slightly bigger that the Western Screech-Owl (9-10 inches in length = ~Quail size). The Whiskered and Vermiculated Screech-Owls do have some close ranges although these owls are not know to overlap.
 See also: Pigeon, Turkey, Finch, Grouse, Sparrow
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