Quail

The Oriental Quail is a bird of passage about the size of a turtledove, and nearly resembling the American partridge. Mentioned 4 times in Old Testament

Exodus 16:13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.

Numbers 11:31-32 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.

The Psalmist reminds Israel of God’s care for them.
Psalm 105:40 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

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