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The California quail (Callipepla californica), also known as the California valley quail or Valley quail, is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. These birds have a curving crest, plume or topknot made of six feathers, that droops forward: black in males and brown in females; the flanks are brown with white streaks.
The California quail is the official state bird of California. This list of birds of California is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of California as determined by the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC). [1] Additional accidental and hypothetical species have been added from different sources.
Genus Callipepla – Wagler, 1832 – four species Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population California quail Male Female Callipepla californica (Shaw, 1798)
Bobwhite quail (state game bird) Colinus virginianus: 1970 [62] Idaho: Peregrine falcon (state raptor) Falco peregrinus: 2004 [63] Massachusetts: Wild turkey (state game bird) Meleagris gallopavo: 1991 [64] Mississippi: Wood duck (state waterfowl) Aix sponsa: 1974 [65] Missouri: Bobwhite quail (state game bird) Colinus virginianus: 2007 [66 ...
Galliformes / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkeys, chickens, quail, and other landfowl.Gallinaceous birds, as they are called, are important in their ecosystems as seed dispersers and predators, and are often reared by humans for their meat and eggs, or hunted as game birds.
The taxonomic treatment [3] (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) used in the accompanying bird lists adheres to the conventions of the AOS's (2019) Check-list of North American Birds, the recognized scientific authority on the taxonomy and nomenclature of North America birds.
This is a comprehensive listing of the bird species recorded in Yosemite National Park, which is in the U.S. state of California. This list is based on one published by the National Park Service (NPS) with species confirmed to 2014. [1] The list contains 264 species after taxonomic changes have been made.
The Galliformes are a clade of bird species of cosmopolitan distribution that, with the Anseriformes, belong to the branch Galloanserae.The group have more than 270 living species and includes the megapodes, chachalacas, guans, curassows, turkeys, grouse, New World quails, pheasants, partridges and guineafowl.