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The northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus), also known as the Virginia quail or (in its home range) bobwhite quail, is a ground-dwelling bird native to Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Cuba, with introduced populations elsewhere in the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. It is a member of the group of species known as New World quail ...
Quail live throughout the United States. Quail hunting in the 20th century was the most popular game hunting sport. [2] Due to their popularity as game birds and their extensive distribution, quail have been studied throughout the North American continent, particularly in the 20th century.
It continued when the legislatures for Alabama, Florida, Maine, Missouri, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming selected their state birds after a campaign was started by the General Federation of Women's Clubs to name official state birds in the 1920s. [1] [2] The last state to choose its bird was Arizona in 1973.
C. v. maculatus (Nelson 1899) (spot-bellied northern bobwhite) C. v. virginianus (Linnaeus 1758) (Eastern bobwhite) C. v. taylori (Lincoln 1915) (plains bobwhite) C. v. texanus (Lawrence 1853) (Texas bobwhite) Callipepla Wagler 1832 (Crested quails) †Callipepla shotwelli (Brodkorb 1958) Scaled quail/blue quail Callipepla squamata (Vigors 1830)
The spot-bellied bobwhite (Colinus leucopogon) is a ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. It is sometimes considered to be conspecific with the crested bobwhite , Colinus cristatus . As the latter species expands north into Costa Rica , it is likely that the two species will overlap in range in the future, but the Costa Rican ...
Spot-bellied bobwhite Colinus leucopogon (Lesson, 1842) El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica Size: 23 cm Habitat: open scrubland Diet: LC Yucatan bobwhite, black-throated bobwhite. Colinus nigrogularis (Gould, 1843) Size: 22 cm Habitat: henequen and sisal landscape Diet: LC Northern bobwhite Colinus virginianus (Linnaeus ...
Bobwhite quail populations had recently been in decline and a study was launched to investigate the causes, and what could be done to reverse the trend. This investigation, known as the Cooperative Quail Investigation, was funded by wealthy landowners in the region that began to suspect a downward trend in bobwhite quail numbers.
The king quail, an Old World quail, often is sold in the pet trade, and within this trade is commonly, though mistakenly, referred to as a "button quail". Many of the common larger species are farm-raised for table food or egg consumption , and are hunted on game farms or in the wild, where they may be released to supplement the wild population ...