Wild Type Brown Bobwhite Quail
A variety of the Bobwhite Quail
Quail · White eggs · Game
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About the Wild Type Brown Bobwhite Quail
The original, naturally occurring colour of the Northern Bobwhite: a plump ground bird in warm rufous and grey, finely barred and scaled below, the cock carrying the species' signature bold white throat and white brow-stripe set off by a black mask, the hen replacing the white with buff. This wild-type plumage is the baseline from which every other colour phase is a mutation, and it is the form behind the clear whistled 'bob-WHITE' call.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- White
- Eggs per year
- About 80
- Purpose
- Game
- Sizes
- Standard
- Incubation
- 23 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- North America
- Scientific name
- Colinus virginianus