1, family difference: quail for the animal kingdom, pheasant family, quail birds; pigeons for the animal kingdom, pigeon-shaped order, dove pigeon family, dove pigeon subfamily, pigeon birds.

2, morphological differences: quail body is small and rounded, brown with obvious straw-yellow spear-shaped stripes; pigeon head wide flat, body large and wide deep.

3, breeding differences: quail male and female birds do not form a fixed mate relationship, but a male and female mating system; pigeons for male and female pigeons **** with the nesting, egg incubation and brood rearing.

Characteristics of quail

Quail body shape is similar to that of chicks, weighing 110-450 grams, with a small head, small beak, no crown compared to chicks, no ear lobes, no spacing, the tail feathers are not upwardly mobile, and the tail is shorter than half the length of the wings.

Quail can be divided into egg type and meat type. Egg type of Japanese quail, Korean quail, Chinese white quail, yellow quail; meat type of French giant quail, Shaweimetsu quail for meat.