- Japanese Quail
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Japanese Quail 
Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Galliformes Family: Phasianidae Subfamily: Perdicinae Genus: Coturnix Species: C. japonica Binomial name Coturnix japonica
Temminck & Schlegel, 1849The Japanese Quail, also known as Coturnix Quail, Coturnix japonica, is a species of Old World Quail found in East Asia. They are a migratory species, breeding in Manchuria, southeastern Siberia, northern Japan, and the Korean Peninsula, and wintering in the south of Japan and southern China. and southern Ukraine. They dwell in grasslands and cultivated fields. The plumage of the Japanese Quail is a speckled yellow-brown, with a creamy white strip above the eye. Adults are approximately 20 centimeters in length. The species is abundant across most of its range.
The Japanese quail is used mainly for table and egg production, and is a good dual purpose bird. Krishi Vigyan Kendra Kannur under Kerala Agricultural University has produced video album containing songs and visuals on Japanese Quail production under Creative Extension series.
Japanese quail eggs have orbited the Earth in several Soviet and Russian spacecraft, including the Bion 5 satellite and the Salyut 6 and Mir space stations.[1] In March 1990 eggs on Mir were successfully incubated and hatched.[2]
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See also
- List of Japanese birds
- List of Korean birds
- Quails in cookery
References
- ^ Muneo Takaoki, “Model Animals for Space Experiments — Species Flown in the Past and Candidate Animals for the Future Experiments”, Biological Sciences in Space, Vol. 21, pp. 76-83 (2007).
- ^ T.S. Guryeva et al., "The quail embryonic development under the conditions of weightlessness", Acta Vet. Brno, Suppl. 6, 62, 1993: S 25-S 30.
Additional references
- BirdLife International (2004). Coturnix japonica. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 13 January 2007. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
- Lee, Woo-Shin; Tae-Hoe Koo, Jin-Young Park; translated by Desmond Allen (2000). A field guide to the birds of Korea. Seoul: LG Evergreen Foundation. ISBN 89-951415-0-6.
External links
- BirdLife Species Factsheet
- Japanese Quails Breeding
- Slovak Commission for Research and Peaceful Uses of Space, with details on Ivan Bella's quail experiments on Mir, including photo of zero-gravity chick
Categories:- IUCN Red List near threatened species
- Galliformes stubs
- Coturnix
- Birds of Bhutan
- Birds of India
- Birds of Japan
- Birds of Korea
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