California Quail Form Large Family Groups A covey of California quail can include up to 100 males, females and young. Learn ...

Adult button quails are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and chicks are even smaller. This ground-dwelling ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds.

After the quarter-acre cooled, Etchells and his dog trainer searched the plot foot by foot, horrified by the thought that the experiment had become a holocaust for the quail, but there were no charred ...

Weighing 140 to 300 grams, Baminornis was much smaller than Archaeopteryx – about the size of a quail – and it would have looked more like modern birds than Archaeopteryx did, says Wang.

Although a common quail of the desert Southwest, the Gambel’s requires a lot of water. Generally sedentary, it moves short distances in the late summer to form coveys, usually comprising several ...