Powers said 43 schools and libraries participated this year, incubating about 1,700 eggs and raising 1,000 birds to be released this year, including the 100 12-week-old baby quail released Tuesday.

Charli Lello, 29, from Hertfordshire, put the Clarence Court eggs in an incubator as an experiment ... a video on Facebook of someone hatching quail eggs from a supermarket.