#KingQuails

2025-10-18

Quail Day! 😊 🥰 😘

Here we have King Quails... although wouldn't the female then be a Queen Quail? 🤔 They do have other names, like the Chinese Painted Quail or Blue-Breasted Quail (despite the fact that only the male has a blue breast). The female is bigger than the male, and they don't have the head plumes that many other quails sport. But they are gorgeous!

1. Female (L) -- Nils Soderman

2. Male (top R) -- André Karwath

3. Female and Male (bottom R) -- photographer unknown.

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A fat little quorb of a female King Quail stands on the ground, facing left (how's that for a sentence?).  She has a puffed-up egg shape, with soft brown and tan feathers in various shades, a short, sharply-pointed black beak, black eyes, and yellow toes.  She's very small, but even so, she's substantially larger than the male.

Unlike California quails, she doesn't have a head plume.

The photographer is Nils Soderman.A male King Quail perches on the ground, facing left.  Unlike the female, he's very colorful, with a blue mask and breast, brown back, and beautiful brownish-red feathers on his underparts, extending out to his sides.  His neck is white outlined in black, and black and white stripes extend from his short lower beak.  His eyes are black, and his toes, peeping out from under his body, are bright yellow.

The photographer is André Karwath.Female (L) and Male (R) King Quails perch on the ground together, the female peering to the left, the male looking to the right.  Their sides are touching, and like typical quails, they are quite round in shape.

The female is larger than the male, and is colored in shades of brown ranging from light tan to dark brown.  The male is showing off his beautiful blue feathers and striking black-and-white breast/lower beak area.  His underparts, which are not very obvious in this photo, are colored brownish-red.

The photographer is unknown.

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