Quail Coturnix coturnix

don’t shoot quail in the UK and the only reason that this elusive little bird appears in this series is that it is classified as a gamebird, even though it has no open season. Before the modern game laws, our forefathers might have added the odd one or two to the bag when walking-up the stubble for an early partridge, but by the time the game season was in full swing the quail