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Female KING QUAIL or BLUE BREASTED QUAILCoturnix chinensis©Ed Jansen -de_buurman The King Quail also known as Chinese Painted Quail, Chun-chi, Button Quail, Asian Blue Quail or Blue-breasted Quail is in the same family as the pheasants. This species is the smallest “true quail” and is quite common in aviculture worldwide. In the wild they range from southeastern Asia to Oceania with 10 different subspecies. It sometimes goes by the name “button Quail”, though this name properly refers to similar-looking but unrelated birds of the genus Turnix. The King Quail comes in many colors from blue to brown, silver, white, white and brown, grey, grey white brown blue etc, and have orange feet. As with most bird species the coloring in the male is far more “showy” in than the female, but this is an extremely good shot of a female. It is similar to the sweet little Mexican Speckled female I have in my covey. They can live up to 13 years under good care but usually 5-7 years. Source Other posts: Male California Quail or Valley Quail Female Bob White Quail - “Georgia Giants” Fledglings California Quail

Female KING QUAIL or BLUE BREASTED QUAIL
Coturnix chinensis
©Ed Jansen -de_buurman

The King Quail also known as Chinese Painted Quail, Chun-chi, Button Quail, Asian Blue Quail or Blue-breasted Quail is in the same family as the pheasants.

This species is the smallest “true quail” and is quite common in aviculture worldwide. In the wild they range from southeastern Asia to Oceania with 10 different subspecies. It sometimes goes by the name “button Quail”, though this name properly refers to similar-looking but unrelated birds of the genus Turnix.

The King Quail comes in many colors from blue to brown, silver, white, white and brown, grey, grey white brown blue etc, and have orange feet. As with most bird species the coloring in the male is far more “showy” in than the female, but this is an extremely good shot of a female. It is similar to the sweet little Mexican Speckled female I have in my covey.

They can live up to 13 years under good care but usually 5-7 years. Source

Other posts:

Male California Quail or Valley Quail

Female Bob White Quail - “Georgia Giants”

Fledglings California Quail

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