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

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SpeciesGalliformesPhasianidae
Birds

🐔Common Quail

Coturnix coturnix (Linnaeus, 1758)

커먼퀘일(common quail, Coturnix coturnix)은 꿩과에 속하는, 땅에 둥지를 트는 수렵조이다. 학명 중 Coturnix는 이 종의 라틴어 낱말이다. 유럽과 북아프리카에 서식하며 IUCN에 의해 관심대상종으로 분류되었다. 시각적으로 비슷해 보이지만 아시아에서 자생하는 메추라기와는 구별된다.

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≈ 1/640th of your weight
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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Facts and figures

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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Coturnix coturnix, Fraunberg, Bayern, Deutschland 2, AusschnittCommon quail (Coturnix coturnix) 2019
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