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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 ...
The following is a list of species endemic to this region: ... (August 2008) California condor; California quail; Gambel's quail; Mountain quail; Sooty grouse;
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Contents
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)
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.
List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California. The county is in Northern California, located on the California coast, including northern Monterey Bay, and west of the San Francisco Bay and Silicon Valley. It includes the southwestern Santa Cruz Mountains. [1] [2]
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.