This category contains articles about different quail breeds. How many quail breeds do you know? The most common ones are Japanese Quail, European Quail, Chinese Painted Quail and Californian Quail. Well, there is a lot more ;-)
The Rock Bush Quail is found throughout the peninsular India. In it’s homeland they’re pretty much the only quail species that are kept in cages as a pets/display birds.
The Painted Bush Quail can be seen pretty much all around the Indian subcontinent however, they mostly found between 1800 and 6000 feet (600 – 2000 meters) above sea level.
The Jungle Bush Quail is the quail of the Indian Subcontinent.
The Snow Mountains Quail, also called Snow Mountain Quail is a fairly large quail species with its 11” (280mm) length. You can find them almost exclusively on the alpine grasslands of New Guineas Irian Jaya at around 9000 feet (3000 meters) above sea level. Their nest is a shallow hole scraped in the ground under …
The Canary Islands Quail inhabited El Hierro, La Palma, Tenerife and Fuerteventura before first humans settled on the islands.
The New Zealand Quail is one of those quail species that we’ll never see running around anymore.
The Blue Quail or also called African Blue Quail can be seen in well maintained gardens, parks, watery fields, on grasslands next to moist forests and also in swamps.
The Harlequin Quail is often seen on open grasslands, watery fields and savannas where there are many trees and shrubs.
The Stubble quail’s territory is Australia; you can mainly meet them in the South-eastern and South-western areas but apart from the very northern parts you would see them living a nomadic lifestyle.
