Appearance
Average adult weight: 6 ½ ounces. Length: 9-11 inches. Have distinctive facial markings consisting of throat patch and streaks above both eyes. On males the markings are white but on females they are a buff color. Plummage is mottled brown to serve as camoflage.
Food
Quail feed usually in the morning or in the evening. Foods eaten are seeds from corn, soybeans, Korean lespedeza, common ragweed, smartweed, foxtail, sassafras, sumac, partridgepea, poison ivy, and wild grape as well as insects.
Habits and Breeding
Quail are a forest edge species, originally living where forest and prairie met and in natural openings. After farmers cleared the land, their numbers increased greatly. Ideal bobwhite habitat is those places where farmland, fencerows, brush, meadows and cropland provide cover. | 
Bobwhite Quail |
