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

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SpeciesGalliformesPhasianidae
Birds

🐔Common Quail

Coturnix coturnix (Linnaeus, 1758)

Обыкнове́нный пе́репел, или перепёлка (Coturnix coturnix (Linnaeus, 1758); устаревшее научное название — лат. Coturnix dactylisonans s. communis), — птица из трибы Coturnicini семейства фазановых (Phasianidae). В прошлом перепелов добывали, во-первых, как дичь, употребляемую в пищу, во-вторых — в качестве певчей птицы и для устройства перепелиных боёв. Наряду с немым перепелом, является единственной перелётной птицей отряда курообразных.

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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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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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