Regarding the Question of the Current State of the Common Quail (Coturnix Coturnix) Breeding Group in Belarus

Abstract

The Common Quail (Coturnix coturnix) is a common bird species and an object of amateur hunting in Belarus. However, insufficient attention is paid to its study in our country. In this work, the occurrence of the Common Quail in all zoogeographic provinces of Belarus was calculated on the basis of data from the counts of the species. According to the results, the occurrence decreases from south to north. As a result of the analysis of the Common Quail population density data obtained from literary sources and collected in the current study in various regions of Belarus and Ukraine, it was found that the population density of the species in the agrocenoses of Ukraine is slightly higher than in Belarus.