Hunting season
Wachtel Catalonia
The common quail (Coturnix coturnix) is Europe's smallest gallinaceous bird, about 16 cm long and at most around 120 g in weight. Its sandy-brown camouflage plumage is finely streaked, and the male shows a black throat patch with a pale collar. In Germany the species is technically listed under federal hunting law, but no open season is set, so it is effectively protected year-round. It appears on the early-warning list of the German Red List of breeding birds and is strictly protected under the Federal Nature Conservation Act.
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When may Wachtel be hunted in Catalonia?
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Exact dates
Codorniz · Modalidad: General · Terrenos cinegeticos de aprovechamiento común · Codorniz
- 2025-10-12 → 2026-02-01· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
En las reservas nacionales de caza, reservas de caza y zonas de caza controlada, el periodo hábil de caza es elque indican los diferentes planes técnicos de gestión cinegética (PTGC) anuales. En los terrenos cinegéticos de régimen especial que no sean de reglamentación especial, los días hábiles quedan limitados a un máximo de tres días y festivos no locales. Los días hábiles quedarán fijados en el PTGC correspondiente, excepto en el ámbito territorial de las Comarcas de Les Terres de l'Ebre.
Codorniz · Modalidad: General · Terrenos de régimen cinegético especial · Codorniz
- 2025-08-24 → 2025-08-24· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat· Forbidden on public holidays
- 2025-08-31 → 2025-08-31· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat· Forbidden on public holidays
- 2025-09-07 → 2025-09-07· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat· Forbidden on public holidays
- 2025-09-14 → 2025-09-14· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat· Forbidden on public holidays
MEDIA VEDA. La caza en el periodo de media veda sólo se puede practicar en los terrenos cinegéticos de régimen especial que lo tengan aprobado en su PTGC. En la demarcación del Lleida y las comarcas de la Cerdanya y el Solsonès que los días hábiles serán los jueves, sábados, domingos y festivos dentro del periodo comprendido entre el 21 de agosto al 10 de septiembre, ambos incluidos.
Codorniz · Modalidad: General · Terrenys cinegètics de règim especial · Codorniz
- 2023-08-20 → 2023-08-20· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun· Forbidden on public holidays
- 2023-08-27 → 2023-08-27· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun· Forbidden on public holidays
- 2023-09-03 → 2023-09-03· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun· Forbidden on public holidays
- 2023-09-10 → 2023-09-10· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun· Forbidden on public holidays
- 2023-08-20 → 2023-09-10· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,fri
Terrenys cinegètics de règim especial (exceptuando Lleida, comarcas de La Cerdanya y El Solsonès)
About Wachtel
In Central Europe the common quail inhabits open field and meadow landscapes: extensively managed grasslands, cereal fields, fallow land and weedy margins, anywhere the bird finds enough low cover to walk and breed on the ground. Quail spend almost their entire lives hidden in the vegetation; their presence is usually revealed only by the male's far-carrying song, the three-syllable Wachtelschlag often transcribed as „Pickwerwick“. Under good conditions the call carries several hundred metres and is heard mainly at dusk and on warm summer nights.
The common quail is the only true long-distance migrant among Europe's gallinaceous birds. Every autumn it leaves its breeding grounds and winters in Africa, with a significant share of the population crossing the Sahara. Migration routes can span several thousand kilometres, and on the way the species still faces intensive hunting pressure in parts of the Mediterranean. In Germany itself the picture has changed dramatically over recent decades: loss of habitat through agricultural intensification, the disappearance of structured field margins, heavier use of pesticides and fertilisers, and ever earlier and larger-scale mowing all put nests and chicks under severe pressure. From a hunter's perspective the quail is therefore a species to listen for and record rather than to pursue. If you hear the Schlagruf in your shooting ground, please consider it in your land management: later mowing, wide flowering margins, fallow strips and skylark plots all benefit this ground-nesting bird directly.
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