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Coturnix coturnixRelease date:2021-12-10

The quail (scientific name: Coturnix coturnix) is 18 cm long, small and round, brown with obvious grass-yellow spear-like stripes and irregular markings. Both males and females have red-brown and black horizontal stripes on the upper body. The male bird has a dark brown chin, and the midline of the throat bends up to the ear feathers on both sides, close to the yellow collar of the leather. The skin-yellow eyebrow lines are in obvious contrast with the brown head and penetrating eye lines. Female birds also have similar patterns but the contrast is not obvious.
Often act in pairs rather than in groups. It is often active in the plains, wastelands, creeks and hillsides where dense weeds or bushes grow, and sometimes also near the cultivated land. It mainly eats weed seeds, beans, grains and berries, young leaves, shoots, etc. In summer, it eats a lot of insects and larvae, as well as small invertebrates. To

Distributed in Europe, Africa, northern, central, western and southern Asia, it breeds in China from Shache and Yumin in western Xinjiang to Lop Nur in the east, and overwinters in southern and southeastern Tibet, and sometimes in northwestern Yunnan. Zhongdian.

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