LONDON: The Australian production house Quail Television has made Jay Kandola, who previously led acquisitions for ITV, Channel 5 and Channel 4 in the U.K., its European manager, a newly created ...

That seemingly harmless, pudgy little bird with the striped belly you see visiting your backyard from time to time or zipping across your favorite mountain trail, well, it harbors a dark family secret ...

European Quail: Consumption of certain quail during migration has been linked to coturnism, a type of food poisoning in humans. Blue-capped Ifrit: Also found in New Guinea, it harbors a poisonous ...

Here’s a forensic riddle: Ten people eat an autumn dinner of roasted quail in Turkey. Hours later, four diners start to vomit. They grow weak. Their muscles ache. At the emergency department, they’re ...

European quail, for example, are migratory game birds belonging to the partridge family (but not "The "Partridge Family"). American quail are not migratory; they waddle around in groups (coveys) and ...

Tiny, feathered, and fatally toxic, these birds prove danger can come in beautiful packages. When we think of poison in the animal kingdom, frogs, snakes, or spiders usually come to mind. But what if ...

The hooded pitohui of New Guinea is one of the few known poisonous birds. Its feathers and skin contain batrachotoxins, potent neurotoxins also found in poison dart frogs. Local hunters are aware of ...