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Re @EFSA_EU staff @marika_vitali presented today #EFSA opinion at the 13th meeting of the #EU platform on the #welfare of #ducks, #geese, and #quails.
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https://europa.eu/!QBtWmb
#EU4AnimalWelfare https://t.co/BnjduAjYck

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Animals_EFSA/status/1669372483886088193

Happy Sunday from the #quails

#wugs #eggs

#December 17, 1770
#OTD Ludwig Van Beethoven, #German #Composer & #Pianist, is #Baptized.

Beethoven loved #Nature. His 6th #Symphony is subtitled #Pastoral.
Each #Movement reflects a #Day in the #Country.
He #Wrote that he wanted the #Music to have an #Effect on the #Soul.

He once told a friend,

"[This is where] I composed the #Scene by the #Brook.
[#Pointing to the #Trees], The #Yellowhammers up there -
and the #Quails, #Nightingales & #Cuckoos - composed with me."

#UrbanFarming #quail #quails
Quail report today.

When i entered covy 2s habitat today, the 6 girls that are in that covey gathered around my boots and whistled at me. It was a piping, high pitched "wheee" . They were repeating it as they milled around looking for the food i bring them.

It is a new sound they are making. They usually say nothing or make sounds that are a quiet "huh?" Or an alarmed sounding croak "e-chee, e‐chee" . The e-chee is a common couternix quail (domestic) call. Usually made when they are alarmed. Norda, from covy1 makes it too.

Norda is a lone older quail who lives in a cage that sits on top of a box house in the center of covey2's habitat. Norda and the ladies of covy2 can see and hear one another.

She has been peeping down at them since i moved her from her former covey's now empty habitat last week. Her old covey mates passed from old age over the fall. She is the last.

Anyway, Norda went "wheeee" as well. It seems they are making new common sounds together.

Very curious. I checked all around the habitat for signs of intruders, in case they were warning each other. (Quail do that). There were none, and they weren't acting distressed at all.

Gilda, the boy, is sequestered (because the girls beat him up) in yet another condo-within the habitat, above the floor on stilts

He didn't make the sound. He randomly crows comically but wasn't acting any differently than usual male-quail silliness.

Don't know what it is, or means but was charmed listening to them. I might try putting norda on the floor to see if they are trying to unite with her. I'll have to hang out with them though. She's fragile.

Thanks for reading all the way down here! I toot about my quail because they are interesting, soothing and i like to share. I'm hoping other quail farmers reach out as well

Peace to you

#job #academia

Two #PhD positions on the #population #ecology of bobwhite #quails

Seeking two PhD students to investigate the effects of extreme #weather events and #hunting pressure on Bobwhite Quail populations in Oklahoma #USA.

#birds
#conservation

Source: https://twitter.com/MichAdebayo/status/1590085481441546241

@jobsecoevo

#joboffer

Two #PhD positions on the #population #ecology of bobwhite #quails

Seeking two PhD students to investigate the effects of extreme #weather events and #hunting pressure on Bobwhite Quail populations in Oklahoma #USA.

#birds
#conservation

Source: https://twitter.com/MichAdebayo/status/1590085481441546241

@joboffersecoevo