King Quail Chick
by Eva Lechner
Title
King Quail Chick
Artist
Eva Lechner
Medium
Photograph - Photograph-fine Art
Description
The king quail (Excalfactoria chinensis), also known as the blue-breasted quail, Asian blue quail, Chinese painted quail, or Chung-Chi, is a species of Old World quail in the family Phasianidae. This species is the smallest "true quail", ranging in the wild from southeastern Asia to Oceania with 10 different subspecies. A failed attempt was made to introduce this species to New Zealand by the Otago Acclimatisation Society in the late 1890s. It is quite common in aviculture worldwide, where it is sometimes misleadingly known as the "button quail", which is the name of an only very distantly related family of birds, the buttonquails.
The male king quail comes in many colors, including blue, brown, silver, maroon, dark brown & almost black. They have orange feet which are hard and able to withstand a continuous life on the ground like many other game birds.The female is similar to the male but cannot come in shades of blue.
The chick is only a couple of cm big
Original fine art photography by Eva Lechner
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August 11th, 2017
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Comments (21)
Only A Fine Day
Very creative. If you haven't already done so, please consider adding this one to my "Favorite Features" contest.
Mary Lou Chmura
Wow, how adorable such perfect details and wonderful processing; very nicely done! l/f
William Tasker
Sandi said it perfectly! Your beautiful image has been featured by Wild Birds Of The World, a nature photography group. L/F
Anita Faye
Eva, cute little King Quail chick! Featured on Poetic Poultry! https://fineartamerica.com/groups/poetic-poultry-.html
Michael Mirijan
This delightful picture is featured on the Master page of the “PHENOMENAL CLUB” group, and may it be known, that the author is a full member of that exceptional group. Hearty congratulations to the great artist.
Don Columbus
Congratulations Eva, your work is Featured in "A Birding Group - Wings"! I invite you to place it in the group's "2017 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet