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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.
California State Route 178 connects the town of Lake Isabella to State Highway 14 in the east, crossing Walker Pass at the north boundary of the wilderness. The Kiavah Wilderness was created in 1994 with the passage of the California Desert Protection Act ( Public Law 103–433), is jointly managed by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of ...
C. c. californica (Shaw 1798) (valley California quail) C. c. catalinensis (Grinnell 1906) (Santa Catalina California quail) C. c. achrustera (Peters 1923) (San Lucas California quail) Gambel's quail, Callipepla gambelii (Gambel 1843) C. g. gambelii (Gambel 1843) (southwestern Gambel's quail) C. g. ignoscens Friedmann 1943 (Texas Gambel's quail)
The flowers of this species provide nectar for butterflies and native bees in the spring, berries provide food for birds in the late summer, and the low-growing habit of the plant make it a good home for California valley quail and wrentit nests. (Lowe 1999) [5]
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 .
Rearing quail is a challenge, even with the proper habitat. “There have been mortalities. You expect that, especially with quail,” Ward said.
The Rancho San Antonio land preserve is one of the few remaining tracts of land in Silicon Valley where native animals can roam free. Along with deer, other commonly seen animals are California quail, cottontail rabbits, crows, hawks, jays, LBBs (little brown birds), lizards, squirrels, turkeys, voles, white tailed kites, woodpeckers.
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.