| Many people keep button quails in the bottom of their aviary, for variety as well as to help clean up spilled seed. |
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| Also known as Chinese painted quail, button quail are the smallest of the quails. |
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| Over the past couple of weeks I've developed a penchant for quails eggs with mini gherkins, dipped in rock salt. |
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| Of the game birds, the species such as ducks, teals, sand grouses, quails, green pigeons, black-bucks etc. are commonly found in the district. |
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| I once surprised a fox that was cautiously making its way towards a large bevy of quails. |
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| Two gentlemen, hunting some years ago in Rappahannock County, Virginia, came across a bevy of quails. |
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| Thus, he lists as noblest the meat of turtledoves, starlings, doves, quails, pheasants, blackbirds, woodcock, partridge, and chaffinch. |
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| The buttonquails or hemipodes are a small family of birds which closely resemble true quails, but are unrelated to them. |
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| Wood said that while few would notice the passing of Sumba's little-known hornbills, quails and fruit doves, their demise has wider implications. |
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| The buttonquails or hemipodes resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails. |
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| Most game birds are also galliforms, including grouse, partridges, pheasants, quails, ptarmigans, and wild turkeys. |
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| Many species like pheasants, partridges, francolins, quails etc have been hunted for food and game, thus resulting in great reduction in numbers. |
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| Raptors are known to prey on game species, such as quails, partridges, pheasants and rabbits. |
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| Gallinaceous is an adjective describing birds of the order Gallinae, which includes common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, and quails. |
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| President Reagan's lack of interest in the details might be fine fun for the coveys of arms control quails. |
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| Guide Mike West said button-quails were rarely seen and it might be that they had been in the area but were wrongly identified as true quails. |
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| By way of example: twenty turtle doves, two quails, one hare killed with a shotgun. |
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| International cuisine uses the eggs of other birds, including ducks, geese, sparrows, quails and ostriches, but it is the hen that has been universally domesticated. |
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| The commonly seen bird variety includes partridges, peafowl, quails, cuckoos, eagles and vultures. |
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| Once teams have such data, players' hopes of lucking their way to the big leagues will fall away like his dying quails. |
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| They sing and dance and the Persian cat even plays the nose flute, and Jenny initially quails before this display of raggle-taggle bravado. |
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| These days our anglers' is lunch is anything from Turkish meze with barbecued kebabs and quails, to grilled cuttlefish and salsa. |
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| This is despite hundreds of thousands of hens dying every month, to say nothing of infected cats, quails, pigs and ducks. |
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| Of the ground nesters, button quails nest in a grass-lined hollow, often building a domed roof and side entrance. |
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| The esophagus is similarly used in sound production by the button quails and by rails of the genus Sarothrura. |
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| None currently apply to products such as horsemeat, goat meat, rabbit meat and eggs from ducks, geese and quails. |
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| In comparison with 1999 there was an increase in the proportion of new world monkeys and quails of European origin. |
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| My Czech colleagues tell me that this has been very good for the quails, but disastrous for the human beings who live and work there! |
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| Significant differences were also observed between test and control quails for bone index and breaking strength. |
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| John Piercy, of St Peter's Street, Norton, realised 11 finches and four quails had been taken from their cage when he saw the aviary door had been forced open. |
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| Reviews the 250 species of pheasants, partridges, grouse, quails, turkeys, guineafowls, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and plains-wanderers of the world. |
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| The rust has attacked the fields which promised the fairest, and they are left unreaped, to feed the quails and the prairie-hens. |
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| Game birds include turkeys and a variety of quails, doves, and waterfowl. |
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| Influence of hydrocolloidal silver nanoparticles on gastrointestinal microflora and morphology of enterocytes of quails. |
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| It is an extension of previous research in the embryogenesis of Japanese quails in weightlessness, which was carried out on board the Mir space station. |
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| One new Member State reported significant use of 'other carnivores', 'other mammals', cattle, 'other rodents', quails and horses, pigs and other birds, in comparison with other Member States. |
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| Typical birds are bustards, quails, sand grouse, and the red-legged hobby. |
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| The length of the tail varies, being proportionately short in button quails, rails, and trumpeters and rather long in mesites, finfoots, and the sun bittern. |
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| The various issues will be discussed, including that of the Maltese continuing to allow hunting of turtle doves and quails during the spring period. |
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| In particular, the hunting of quails and turtle doves during the migration period is authorised by the local authorities in Ceuta year after year, contrary to the Directive. |
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| At the restaurant last year we had it on with poached quails eggs, blood orange crumble and maltaise sauce. |
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| Milk jug Meissen porcelain with polychrome decoration Kakiemon of two quails flanked prunus branches and flowering shrubs, the take cover is a flower, brown thread on the edge. |
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| There are swans everywhere, there are quails, woodcocks, pheasants and rabbits, turkeys, partridges, hazelhens and a stupendous amount of turtledoves. |
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| Two of the five Galliform families, the cracids and the New World quails, are confined to the Americas, with most species in Central and especially South America. |
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| Hummingbirds, honeycreepers and painted quails also inhabit the area. |
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| Bahaval Khan said that dozens of motorcycles, cash and 20 Common Quails were recovered from the den house. |
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