Summary ²

The common quail (Coturnix coturnix) or European quail is a small ground-nesting game bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. Coturnix is the Latin for this species.

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1. (c) Ján Svetlík, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/svetlik/3785030177/
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coturnix_coturnix

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