Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The common quail (Coturnix coturnix), or European quail, is a small ground-nesting game bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae.It is mainly migratory, breeding in the western Palearctic and wintering in Africa and southern India.
A domesticated quail is a domestic form of the quail, a collective name which refers to a group of several small species of fowl. Thousands of years of breeding and domestication have guided the bird's evolution. Humans domesticated quails for meat and egg production; additionally, quails can be kept as pets.
Egg of Oreortyx pictus – MHNT. Breeding among mountain quail is monogamous and rarely gregarious. The female typically lays 9–10 eggs in a simple scrape concealed in vegetation, often at the base of a tree or shrub, usually close to water. Incubation lasts from 21 to 25 days, usually performed by the female and rarely by the male.
Fifteen birds, including eight females came from Fort Barfoot, an Army National Guard installation in Virginia; 50 quail, evenly split male and female, arrived from Tall Timbers, a Florida-based ...
It feeds on seeds and small insects, typically in small groups of 6–25 birds. Breeding starts at the end of the rains and lasts until the end of the cold season, with the exact timing varying across its range. It nests in shallow scrapes in cover and lays clutches of 4–8 eggs. Incubation is only done by the female.
Eggs, Collection Museum Wiesbaden. In Victoria the stubble quail breed between August and December, [8] but breeding season can vary due to environmental conditions. [13] Breeding pairs may stay together for all year and if a pair is separated when flushed, they will call to each other in order to locate each other. [9]
Some subspecies breed in sub-Saharan Africa: Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) Typically breed in East Asia and winter in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and southern China, but have been reported breeding in Turkey and wintering across southern Africa †New Zealand quail (Coturnix novaezelandiae) (extinct) New Zealand: Stubble quail (Coturnix ...
The king quail, an Old World quail, often is sold in the pet trade, and within this trade is commonly, though mistakenly, referred to as a "button quail". Many of the common larger species are farm-raised for table food or egg consumption , and are hunted on game farms or in the wild, where they may be released to supplement the wild population ...