That seemingly harmless, pudgy little bird with the striped belly you see visiting your backyard from time to time or zipping across your favorite mountain trail, well, it harbors a dark family secret ...

‘I don’t want to shoot them anymore — I just like to see them around and hear them whistle,’ said a landowner In his teen years, when Joe Graves heard the unique call of quail on his family’s 800-acre ...

Galliformes include 290 species of quail, pheasants, turkeys, partridges, grouse, peacocks, guans, curassows, and guinea fowl. Prized as game birds and reared for their meat and eggs, these ...