CoturniX JAPONICA Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Japanese Quail (C. japonica) was formerly considered a subspecies of Common Quail (C. coturnix), but currently is treated as a separate species (Madge and McGowan 2002, McGowan and Kirwan 2020). Earlier accounts of this species in Nebraska (Mathison and Mathison 1960, Shickley 1968) referred to these birds as […]
