Species

Common quail

Birds

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Nature Atlas. "Common quail." Accessed September 8, 2026. https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/species/common-quail.

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Nature Atlas. (n.d.). Common quail. Retrieved September 8, 2026, from https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/species/common-quail

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@misc{natureatlas-common-quail,
  author = {Nature Atlas},
  title = {Common quail},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/species/common-quail},
  note = {Accessed September 8, 2026}
}

The common quail, also called the European quail, is a small ground-nesting game bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It is mainly migratory, breeding across the western Palearctic and wintering in Africa and southern India.

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