Quails of the New World

Published: Sept. 25, 2023, 9 p.m.

This is Episode 83. It\u2019s all about birds in the family Odontophoridae. These are the New World quails.Why is this the family of "New World" quails?Because there\u2019s a whole mess of birds we call quails that live in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. But those birds all belong to the pheasant family, Phasianidae. New World quails are shy birds ground-dwelling birds that walk or run around in the daytime, looking for tidbits of food in the leaf litter.If they sense any kind of stranger danger, ...