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QUAIL - ELEGANT
(ALSO KNOWN AS BENSON OR DOUGLAS QUAIL)

Latin name - Callipepla Douglasii
Approximate size -  9½ inches
Incubation length -  22 days

Main characteristics:-
* Easy to sex
* Extremely rare in the UK at present
* They are very wild birds
* They don't stay still for more than a few seconds!
* Quite often don't breed until they're in their second year

Colours available (click on the thumbnail/s below to view photo/s) No known mutations