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Depre raises around 17,500 free-range hens and 70,000 quails in sheds with outdoor runs.
From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026
Here you can chase hummingbirds, roam through the never-crowded garden and “visit Stoneview’s resident quails, which have their own fenced-in compound called, ‘Quallywood,’” she says.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
The tinned dishes included typical Mediterranean ingredients, such as olives, tomatoes, quails and swordfish.
From Seattle Times • May 11, 2024
Though scientists don’t fully understand these light-sensing receptors, one team identified certain brain cells in quails that could directly detect light, according to a study published in 2014 in Current Biology.
From Scientific American • Apr. 20, 2023
There was so much bobbing and grinning and nodding up and down, they looked like a covey of quails.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
