Bird / Coturnix coturnix
Common Quail
Lowest risk
Migratory
The common quail, or European quail, is a small ground-nesting game bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. Coturnix is the Latin for this species.
- Range mass
- 70 to 155 g
- Average length
- 17.5 cm
- Average basal metabolic rate
- 0.891 W
- Breeding interval
- Common quail breed once yearly and can have up to three clutches per season.
- Breeding season
- In Europe, May to August. In Africa, September to March (January to February in some parts).
- Range eggs per season
- 6 to 13
- Range time to hatching
- 17 to 20 days
- Average lifespan
Status: captivity - 11 years
Pappas, J. 2002. "Coturnix coturnix" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed November 10, 2020 at https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Coturnix_coturnix/
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