Common quail
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The common quail, 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.
Eggs
Head of female of the nominate subspecies
Female
Coturnix
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Coturnix is a genus of five extant species and five to eight known extinct species of Old World quail.
Image: Rain Quail Male
Image: Coturnix delegorguei
Image: Coturnix coturnix (Warsaw zoo) 1