PREFERRING to be heard rather than seen, Brown Quail are shy and secretive inhabitants of rank grassy areas.
They are similar in appearance and behaviour to the Stubble Quail, previously featured in this column, but the Stubble typically lives in drier grasslands with shorter vegetation, whereas the Brown Quail prefers denser and taller pockets of tussock and sedgeland, often in low-lying swampy g...
