I wouldn't dream of telling you you're wrong. Mostly because as far as I'm concerned they're both much too gamey for my taste and I think of them as pigeons. I don't have the slightest desire to ever eat one again.
Lucille
That's because the quail are often farm raised and released for hunting, the other is the ultimate in free range!
Cheryl
Aaah and I do so love pigeon pie as well lol
Quail are like partridge, only a lot smaller.
Pat P
Ring necked Pheasants at least, were introduced here from China. Not sure about partridges, but red-legged partridges were introduced from France, and were not at all popular as they tend to run rather than fly, and aren`t such good sport!
Pat P
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You`re right, although I like both. When we (Ahem!) lunched with Ptrincess Anne, we had partridge, and it was great! Jane used to breed quail, and I love them cold. They are MUCH smaller than partridge.
Pat P
A sideline of the golf courses in Japan was raising quail and selling their eggs, hardboiled, in lovely little wooden boxes with the eggs nestled in small size straw. The eggs are bright blue and grey tones with specks of brown. My father used to bring some home for my eldest daughter.
That`s really why Jane kept quail - mainly for the eggs, which are delightful - and fetch a good price. Lovely fried!
Pat P
How very British of you ;-))))
The only pigeons I'm familiar with are the dirty, rotten scoundrels that poop on your head when you're walking in Central Park and they're not fit for eating. L
Those verminous characters were not the sort I made into pigeon pie. For that one needed wood pigeons, which were pretty much the same but lived in the country and ate more naturally.
When we lived on the fringes of Dartmoor we would see them flying into the field beyond the kitchen window. My husband would go out, conceal himself and wait for the sentinel pigeon to fly in. If nothing happened to that, the rest came in, then of course 'something' happened to a few. On the scale of things though, the pigeon population could stand the little depredation.
Quail are wild on the East Coast of the US. We call them Bobwhites.
Elizabeth
That would be incorrect. In the United States, there is very definitely a difference between the California Quail, Bobwhite Quail, and the Grey Partridge. I came up with the same source you did, but I don't really consider a fourth grade class project to be authoritative, so I looked farther.
Elizabeth
I stopped being so lazy and looked them up in an old bird book I own and found that they are indeed different birds. My book, which I admit is an old one, lists three species under the Family Phasianidae, Gray Partridge, Common Bobwhite and Scaled Quail.
But I hope you will agree that they are related. Whether or not they get along better or worse than other families, who knows..
Lucille
Spew!!!!!
Cheryl
Are we counting RCTN as a family too ? :-Þ
Jane and Peter like eating "Woodies". Personally we can`t stand them, edibly speakinking!
Carolyn was remarking how big and noisy out pigeons are!!!
Pat P
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LOL!
Elizabeth
I think we should. For me RCTN has become the family I want to visit, rather than those I have to visit. I sure spend a lot more time here than I ever did with my other family and often enjoy it more. I adore nearly every part of it, black sheep, squabbles and all.
The fact is that I've made some real friends here and as Martha says: "It's a good thing."
Lucille
It's the old thing about not be able to choose one's relatives lol
Talking of Martha I saw her magazine recently (in the stupidmarket lineup) was dealing with decorating 'small spaces' - that seemed appropos.
YES!!! Cheryl
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