Quail bird: Quail is a collective

Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds generally placed in the order Galliformes. The collective noun for a group of quail is a flock, covey, [1] or bevy. The common quail (Coturnix coturnix) or European quail is a small ground-nesting game bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It is mainly migratory, breeding in the western Palearctic and wintering in Africa and southern India. Learn about quail birds, their characteristics, diet, behavior, and distribution. Find out the different species, types, and threats of quails, and how they communicate and mate. Quail , any of more than 130 species of small short-tailed game birds of the families Phasianidae and Odontophoridae (order Galliformes) that resemble partridges.