Ccoturni

Species fact sheet by Global Register of Migratory Species - www.groms.de

Coturnix coturnix

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Family: Phasianidae

Order: Galliformes

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Common quail

Wachtel

Caille des blés

Codorniz común

CMS App II

Redlist 2000 (Criteria) NL

CITES NL

(Europe: SPEC 3 threat status V)

Migration: intercontinental

Coturnix coturnix

Complex. Majority of W Palearctic breeding birds believed to winter S of Sahara, mainly in Sahel zone, but some winter as far N as British Is and Germany, and with some regularity around Mediterranean; birds of these populations do not seem to cross over equatorial forest; migration routes believed to vary individually, and from year to year. Birds that winter in C & S India believed to migrate through NW Pakistan, before dispersing throughout Indian Subcontinent. S African birds may move N to winter in Angola, S Zaire, N Namibia and W Zambia, where species is probably non-breeding-visitor.
(del Hoyo J A Elliott; J Sargatal (eds) (1994) - www.hbw.com )

Regions: East Asia, Europe, North Africa, North Asia, South & Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, West & Central Asia