Least ConcernCalifornia Quail
Callipepla californica
6 countries14 parks
Species group · Birds
WAnimals has 4 species of quail, spread across 2 families (Odontophoridae, Phasianidae).
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 4.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 64 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Its plume looks like a single curved feather but is in fact six overlapping feathers that work as one unit.
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The winter flocks, called coveys, can bring together more than a hundred birds, and break up in spring into pairs that occupy separate territories.
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Chicks from several families often join up in crèches looked after by a number of adults, and a male that has lost his mate may adopt other birds' chicks without conflict.
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It would rather hide in the crop than fly, though it flies perfectly well.
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It eats weed seeds, spilt grain, and small insects and their larvae.
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It lives in grassland and crops of cereal and clover in Europe, Turkey and Central Asia.
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It sleeps in a circle: the covey packs into a ring with tails inwards and heads outwards, conserving heat and keeping a 360-degree watch, and if something startles them they explode outwards in all directions at once.
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Its decline is one of the most severe in North American birdlife: more than 80% since 1966, mainly through the disappearance of mosaics of scrub, fallow and field margin from the farmed landscape.
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