What does the Common Quail eat?
Coturnix coturnix
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Diet overview
Omnivore
How it forages
Primarily ground-foraging. Diet consists mainly of seeds from grasses and weeds, grains (especially cereal crops), and small invertebrates such as insects (beetles, ants, grasshoppers), snails, and worms. Chicks are almost exclusively insectivorous.
When it feeds
Diurnal, though often most active at dawn and dusk. Migratory flights occur primarily at night.
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