Male Japanese quails produce a strange seminal foam that appears to enhance the chances of successfully fertilizing an egg.

The birds, famous for their distinctive "poor, bob-white" morning calls, had nearly vanished from Maryland after declining ...

Quail eggs are small, speckled eggs laid by quails, a type of small game bird found worldwide. Despite their tiny size, quail ...

There have been many stories of mothers throughout the animal kingdom risking their lives to protect their young. Some, like ...

The Arkansas turkey season ended in May, but there’s still good reason for hunters and outdoor enthusiasts to keep the birds ...

With a special little tooth on its bill, the chick pips the shell and squirms out. The tooth is shed after a few days. The chicks dry quickly into buff-and-brown balls of down. Instead of being ...

In AZ, at least 4 commercial farms in Maricopa County have experienced an outbreak that has decimated their chicken flocks.

Weighing 140 to 300 grams, Baminornis was much smaller than Archaeopteryx – about the size of a quail – and it would have looked more like modern birds than Archaeopteryx did, says Wang. Some ...