Common quail: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the common quail lives – recorded in 56 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Coturnix coturnix
Group	Pheasants, grouse & game birds
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	56 countries
Continents	Africa, Asia, Europe
Mass	8.2 g (birth weight)
Diet (main food)	insect, Orthoptera, beetle, seed, Formicidae
Class	Bird
Order	Galliformes
Family	Phasianidae

Where does the common quail live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the common quail in 56 countries and territories across Africa, Asia and Europe. Wikidata gives its range as: Africa, Burkina Faso.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a common quail?

Wikidata records the following for the common quail: mass 8.2 g (birth weight).

What does a common quail eat?

Wikidata lists the main food source of the common quail as: insect, Orthoptera, beetle, seed, Formicidae.

Is the common quail endangered?

The common quail’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the common quail?

The common quail (Coturnix coturnix) is a bird in the order Galliformes and the family Phasianidae, genus Coturnix. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the common quail

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 Palearctic and wintering in Africa and southern India.

With its characteristic call of three repeated chirps (repeated three times in quick succession), this species of quail is more often heard than seen. It is widespread in Europe and North Africa, and is categorised by the IUCN as "least concern". It should not be confused with the Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica), native to Asia, which, although visually similar, has a call that is very distinct from that of the common quail. Like the Japanese quail, common quails are sometimes kept as poultry.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Common quail (revision 1374721368), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q28358 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).