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Elegant Quail
Callipepla douglasii
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About the Elegant Quail
The elegant quail (Callipepla douglasii) is a species of New World quail endemic to Pacific-slope thorn forest of north-western Mexico, from southern Sonora to Nayarit. These are common, mainly ground-dwelling birds, and the IUCN has rated them as being a "species of least concern".
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Callipepla douglasii
- Family
- New World Quail
- Order
- Galliformes
Similar species
Other members of the new world quail family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Banded Quail Philortyx fasciatus
- Bearded Wood-Partridge Dendrortyx barbatus
- Black-throated Bobwhite Colinus nigrogularis
- Buffy-crowned Wood-Partridge Dendrortyx leucophrys
- California Quail Callipepla californica
- Gambel's Quail Callipepla gambelii
- Long-tailed Wood-Partridge Dendrortyx macroura
- Montezuma Quail Cyrtonyx montezumae
- Mountain Quail Oreortyx pictus
- Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
- Ocellated Quail Cyrtonyx ocellatus
- Scaled Quail Callipepla squamata
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