mysterious quail sighted

[finchbreeder]

Don't know the fauna of your area, but the description sounds like Stubble quail to me. Used to be moderately common in the farming areas round here a number of years back. Turning up in headers every now and then. But seem to be less common these days.
LML

[VR1Ton]

Male Stubble Quail

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Stubble & King, bit hard to guage size with this pic & bird, breed from a line of Kings I use to show.

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[jusdeb]

The ones I saw had none of that silvery looking plumage , it was brown tones .

[jusdeb]

Thats a lovely little King Quail in the pic.

[Jayburd]

I see my post was deleted, probably because I said B****y. Well then. The king quail in that pic is REALLY MASSIVE!

[jusdeb]

Wouldnt it just be censored ?

[Jayburd]

dunno, but I posted it and then it was gone..

[VR1Ton]

Him & his brother, who only has one leg, are the last of the line I have breed since I was 15, It's great grandmother, would just sit in the show cage & wouldn't move till the judge would poke it, she won champion quail at every show she was entered, beating Jap & Californian Quail several times, think she even won champion miscellaneous a couple of times. Bit of a shame though, he's about 6 now, & I don't have any hens to put with him, & all the other suitable cages have got spare male Black-breasted in.

[jusdeb]

Shame to waste those good genes VR1 .... any chance of 1 more clutch from him .

[Nrg800]

http://dubbofieldnats.org.au/Dubbo%20Bi ... ct2009.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - A Great Annotated Birdlist for Dubbo ;) Both Brown and Stubble Quail are common, with Painted being uncommon. I'd be calling your bird Brown Quails ;) But I've only ever had fleeting views of wild quails...