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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Momo" data-source="post: 1564085" data-attributes="member: 16499"><p>Sorry to digress a bit (as far as I'm concerned, ticks are just an occupational hazard, especially with Lyme's disease making a comeback), but I find it terribly sad that flushing quail, corncrake and the like has become a serious issue. It used just to be a relatively harmless kids' game in the days before DSLRs and websites, and certainly far less "immoral" from the birds' point of view than modern farming methods. Only a few years ago I used regularly (and unintentionally) to flush quail on a short cut I took across a meadow on the way to some ponds near where I live, and they always came back. Now that they've torn down the hedges and planted maize and sunflowers everywhere you don't even hear them any more. For something that's intrinsically hard to see in Switzerland (i.e. not just because it's extinct) I'd go for hazel hen. Abundant in the right habitat and plenty of the right habitat still around, but sooooo skittish.</p></blockquote><p></p>