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Coturnix coturnix, Fraunberg, Bayern, Deutschland 2, Ausschnitt🐔

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SpeciesGalliformesPhasianidae
Birds

🐔Common Quail

Coturnix coturnix (Linnaeus, 1758)

La codorniz común​ (Coturnix coturnix) es una especie de ave galliforme de la familia Phasianidae ampliamente distribuida por Eurafrasia.​ Es un ave pequeña y rechoncha que no vuela largas distancias. Su plumaje en la zona dorsal es de color terroso con veteado ocráceo y negro mientras que en las partes inferiores es más claro. El color del dorso es especialmente críptico al contrastarlo sobre un suelo con restos de plantas secas. Los adultos muestran una clara diferenciación sexual a nivel de la garganta y del pecho. Los machos presentan en la garganta un diseño en forma de ancla de color oscuro del que carecen las hembras mientras que las plumas del pecho, en el caso de los machos son anaranjadas y en las hembras blanquecinas con manchas negras muy aparentes. Los machos emiten un canto formado por dos vocalizaciones distintas, una que onomatopéyicamente se podría describir como “mau – mau” y otra más estridente compuesta de tres sílabas “par – pa - lá”. Las hembras emiten una vocalización bisilábica “ri – tit”.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.1 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Everything we know about the Common Quail

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.1 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.1 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.04 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.11 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.02 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.02 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
15 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Human Modified
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common Quail yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderGalliformes
  5. ›familyPhasianidae
  6. ›genusCoturnix
  7. ›speciesCoturnix coturnix
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. superorderGalloanserae
  4. orderGamebirds · Galliformes
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. superorderGalloanserae
  11. orderGamebirds · Galliformes
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Closest relative on this site
🐔 Chicken — last shared an ancestor ≈ 22 million years ago.
In other languages
Ορτύκι (el), سمان شائع (ar), обична препелица (sr), vagtel (da), Paspallás común (gl), prepelica poľná (sk) … and 27 more languages
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