Male Japanese quails produce a strange seminal foam that appears to enhance the chances of successfully fertilizing an egg.

One of six native quail species found in the United States, the northern bobwhite is the only species found east of the Mississippi. It is named for its two-note whistle, which sounds like a low ...

California quail, also known as valley quail, are the most common species of these resident birds. They can be found year-round from the coastal sage and chaparral fields to the inland valleys ...

“Quail is a nicety, not a necessity,” says Manchester Farm’s Britteny Miller, who now solely operates the farm business her father started more than 30 years ago in Columbia, S.C. Miller’s company ...

Having found plenty of Mearns and even a few Gambel’s quail, Nissen took us to a stretch of desert frequented by several coveys of scaled quail. The bird gets its name from markings on its ...

Weighing 140 to 300 grams, Baminornis was much smaller than Archaeopteryx – about the size of a quail – and it would have looked more like modern birds than Archaeopteryx did, says Wang. Some ...

As part of the research, Reyna and his team successfully transferred 250 wild California valley quail last spring from Idaho to Texas. They fitted many of the birds with radio trackers and located ...

Your mystery bird is a Gambel’s Quail, a bird normally found in the desert Southwest. It looks very much like the more widely known California Quail, with both birds having the classic quail ...

After watching the birds take flight, he said, "It was really exciting. It took a lot of work by a lot of people to get to this point.” The birds, which were once found in all 67 counties of ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently discovered ...