Gambel's Quail

Callipepla gambeliiOrder: GALLIFORMES Family: Quails (Odontophoridae)

Codes: Common Name: GAQU Scientific Name: CALGAM ITIS Taxonomic No.: 175877

Head

Topo Map: Perching-like Head

Bill Shape: Curved (up or down)
Eye Color: Brown.
Head Pattern: Crested or plumed, Special (unique patterns or features)
Crown Color: Red-brown
Forehead Color: Black edged in white at crown.
Nape Color: Gray
Throat Color: Black
Cere color: No Data

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Body

Topo Map: Perching-like Body

Length Range: 28 cm (11 in)
Weight: 170 g (6 oz)
Size: Size 3. Medium (9 - 16 in)
Color: White, Brown, Gray, Rufous or Rust
Underparts: Gray, buff and black with red-brown sides.
Upperparts: Gray
Back Pattern: Solid
Belly Pattern: Striped or streaked
Breast Pattern: Striped or streaked

Flight

Topo Map: Sandpiper-like Flight

Flight Pattern: Flies with explosive burst of speed over short distances., Alternates series of rapid stiff wing beats with short glides.
Wingspan Range: 36-66 cm (14-26 in)
Wing Shape: Rounded-Wings
Tail Shape: Squared Tail
Tail Pattern: Solid
Upper Tail: Gray
Under Tail: Pale Gray
Leg Color: Gray

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Gambel's Quail

Gambel's Quail: Medium quail, gray upperparts and breast, scaled gray nape, black patch on center of abdomen, black head plume, white-bordered black face, cinnamon-brown crown, buff underparts, flanks streaked dark chestnut-brown and white. Alternates several stiff wing beats with short glides.

● Song: "quoit", "oit", "chi-CA-go-go"

● Foraging & Feeding: Gambel's Quail: Eats mainly seeds and forbs, but also insects, spiders, and small reptiles; forages on the ground.

● Breeding & nesting: Gambel's Quail: Nine to fourteen brown spotted, buff eggs are laid in a ground scrape lined with grass, sticks, and feathers. Incubation ranges from 21 to 24 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Gambel's Quail: California Quail lacks black patch on abdomen, has dark brown crown black, prominently speckled white nape and sides of neck, and dull brown flanks.

Flight Pattern

Flies with explosive burst of speed over short distances., Alternates series of rapid stiff wing beats with short glides.

● Range & Habitat: Gambel's Quail: Resident in the Sonoran desert of Arizona and Mexico, extending into southern New Mexico, up and down the Rio Grande, up the Colorado River drainage into Utah’s canyon country, and west to California and southern Nevada. Preferred habitats include brushy and thorny vegetation of southwestern deserts.

^BreedingMonogamous, Gregarious.

^Population

^MigrationNonmigratory

^Weight6 Ounces

Perching-like Head

Perching-like Body

Sandpiper-like Flight

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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