Common Quail

Coturnix coturnix

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

Where it is now

In the last 8 weeks this bird was recorded 3,574 times across 50 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

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Movement and weather

Each season it is first heard regularly where daytime highs are around 20°C (typically 15 to 23°C, from 21 areas).

Over the weeks it was present in the past year, its centre in Europe ranged from 38°N in April to 49°N in June, about 1,200 km apart.

Arrival dates

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

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Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured and how it compares with human observers.