Adult button quails are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and chicks are even smaller. This ground-dwelling species is very rare and only found in thick grasslands. They’re the smallest ...

Young raptors are jumping out of their nests early as the extreme heat becomes unbearable, and wildlife rescue centers are getting dozens of calls a day from people who found the chicks on the ground.

I call baby quail "buttons with fast feet." Just about this time each year we see them, many of them racing after one or two moms on the lookout for something good to eat. Baby quail are truly ...

One thing I like about California is our choice of official state bird: the California quail. Most sports teams and schools pick rather fierce and aggressive animals for the mascots. The United States ...

Rohnert Park public safety officer Brittany Hawks was driving around town on routine patrol Aug. 18 when she noticed a Rohnert Park Public Works employee on the sidewalk and stopped to say hello. That ...

Last spring a quail laid 18 eggs in a plant on my enclosed patio. After they hatched, seeing those miniscule creatures scurrying around my patio brought tears to my eyes. I called a man in Phoenix who ...

While the world seems focused on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, tiny miracles here on Mt. Whoville this week has offered assurance that life will go on. After what seemed like endless days of ...