Common Quail
Habitat and behaviour
Habitat: Cereal fields (summer).
Diet: Seeds, insects.
Best time to spot: Heard, almost never seen.
When to look
Resident in the UK, so it can be found year-round. More on the season in Bird migration in Britain.
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Similar birds
- Montagu's HarrierRare · Cereal fields (rare summer breeder)
- Corn BuntingUncommon · Cereal fields
- European Golden PloverUncommon · Moorland (summer); fields (winter)
- Bean GooseRare · Damp fields (winter)
- Black-throated DiverRare · Highland lochs (summer)
- Common Grasshopper WarblerRare · Rough grassland
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