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The scaled quail (Callipepla squamata), also commonly called blue quail or cottontop, is a species of the New World quail family. It is a bluish gray bird found in the arid regions of the Southwestern United States to Central Mexico. This species is an early offshoot of the genus Callipepla, diverging in the Pliocene. [2]
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. texanus (Lawrence 1853) (Texas bobwhite) Callipepla Wagler 1832 (Crested quails) †Callipepla shotwelli (Brodkorb 1958) Scaled quail/blue quail Callipepla squamata (Vigors 1830) C. s. pallida Brewster 1881 (northern scaled quail) C. s. hargravei Rea 1973 (Upper Sonoran scaled quail) C. s. castanogastris Brewster 1883 (chestnut-bellied ...
Oct. 21—Quail numbers continue to lag in the face of persistent drought conditions this year, with the South Texas Plains region probably the best option for hunters. Quail season begins Oct. 29.
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A Texas Tech professor's nine-year effort research effort to develop an anthelmintic drug for parasite control in wild quail populations has gotten the final nod of approval from the FDA.
The blue quail is migratory, changing regions at the start of the rainy season and again early in the dry season. [2] It eats seeds, leaves, insects, and molluscs. [8] Its voice is a piping whistle, kew kew yew. [9] It also gives the whistle tir-tir-tir when it is flushed. [2] The blue quail is monogamous. The nest is a scrape.
This is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species recorded in Big Bend National Park, which is in the U.S. state of Texas. Unless otherwise noted, this list is based on one published by the National Park Service (NPS) as of July 2024. [1]