quail

They were caught using cage-type traps baited with venison and quail, a small game bird.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026

Another hunting trip gone awry earned Cheney embarrassing headlines in 2006 when he accidentally shot and wounded a member of the party with a round of birdshot while quail hunting on a Texas ranch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025

Under the ticking clock, the chefs wrestle with dishes like tournedos aux morilles and quail with cherries.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024

"There's no reason that it will not work for all poultry operations, including turkeys, quail and ducks," Dridi said.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2024

I am only a reasonable quail shot but the men with me were excellent, the dogs were professional, keen, hard, and hardworking.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

They had so many kids following along behind them they looked like a covey of quails.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

My heart quailed at the idea of sharing a roof with her again, all of us swept up in the tornado vortex of her illness.

From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2022

Naturally Helberg quailed at the thought of taking on Jimmy Stewart’s iconic role?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2018

Some of the starkest images of the extremism that gained ground in the 1930s as democracies quailed came from German artists themselves.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2017

No, wait: She quailed at confronting the Islamic State.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2016

Yet when she put the thought into words, her handmaid Doreah quailed.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

It wasn’t so long ago that book publishers and bookstore owners were quailing about the coming of ebooks, like movie theater owners at the dawn of the television age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2022

He has been a quailing, simpering paragon of mediocrity.

From Washington Post ● May 10, 2021

Instead, lawmakers, quailing at the union’s opposition, decided only that civilians may be included on the boards — which, in practice, is unlikely to happen.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2016

Whatever its other problems, the Reagan Administration showed no signs of quailing before that threat.

From Time Magazine Archive

No quailing, no clinging there, not in those capes and rough tweeds, those boots that came to the knee.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood