Whats a "quail"
When I was growing up I think I never heard them referred to as anything but birds until I was maybe 16 or so !
Back when wild birds were still fairly easy to come by in central Virginia you rarely heard of anyone shooting Grouse and much less Woodcock !
There's an older dog trainer skeet shooter by the name of Robin Agee that lives down in Farmville VA . Thirty years ago I still remember him talking about wild birds below Richmond to the Carolina line . I wish I could figure out a way to write birds to mimic the way he and George Parkins pronounced the word it was priceless .