California Quail facts 🐥 California Valley Quail 🐣 Valley Quail 🐥 State Bird of California 🇺🇸
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The California quail, 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 or plume, made of six feathers, that droops forward: black in males and brown in females; the flanks are brown with white streaks. Males have a dark brown cap and a black face with a brown back, a grey-blue chest and a light brown belly. Females and immature birds are mainly grey-brown with a light-colored belly. Their closest relative is Gambel's quail which has a more southerly distribution and, a longer crest, a brighter head and a scalier appearance. It is the state bird of California.
It is a highly sociable bird that often gathers in small flocks known as "coveys". One of their daily communal activities is a dust bath. A group of quail will select an area where the ground has been newly turned or is soft, and using their underbellies, will burrow downward into the soil some one to two inches. They then wriggle about in the indentations they have created, flapping their wings and ruffling their feathers, causing dust to rise in the air. They seem to prefer sunny places in which to create these dust baths. An ornithologist is able to detect the presence of quail in an area by spotting the circular indentations left behind in the soft dirt.
They are year-round residents. Although this bird coexists well at the edges of urban areas, it is declining in some areas as human populations increase. They were originally found mainly in the southwestern United States but they have been introduced into other areas including British Columbia, Hawaii, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, South Africa, New Zealand, and to Norfolk Island and King Island in Australia. These birds forage on the ground, often scratching at the soil. They can sometimes be seen feeding at the sides of roads. Their diet consists mainly of seeds and leaves, but they also eat some berries and insects. If startled, these birds explode into short rapid flight, called "flushing". Given a choice, they will normally escape on foot.
Their breeding habitat is shrubby areas and open woodlands in western North America. The nest is a shallow scrape lined with vegetation on the ground beneath a shrub or other cover. The female usually lays approximately 12 eggs. Once hatched, the young associate with both adults. Often, families group together, into multifamily "communal broods" which include at least two females, multiple males and many offspring. Males associated with families are not always the genetic fathers. In good years, females will lay more than one clutch, leaving the hatched young with the associated male and laying a new clutch, often with a different associated male.
They have a variety of vocalizations including the social "chicago" call, contact "pips" and warning "pips". During the breeding season, males utter the agonistic "squill" and will often interrupt their social mate's "chicago" call with a "squill," a possible form of antiphonal calling.
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The quail population has fluctuated significantly throughout California. Once plentiful in San Francisco, by 2017 only one California quail remained in the city. Local birders named the male bird Ishi after the last known member of California's Native American Yahi tribe.
I got California quail in my back yard , Central Utah
Very excited to know that. Take good care of them.
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I've got some in my incubator right now. 😁 beautiful birds
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I have one male that flies up to my porch/perch railing. to just look around. N Idaho.
Wow that’s really cool
In Korea, chicks were born by natural incubation of quail in an artificial cage.It's even more wonderful to see quails in nature.
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These are beautiful birds how old do they have to be to lay eggs
Google says: Quail are most fertile and productive between the ages of two and eight months, when hens usually lay one egg daily. At nine months and beyond, fertility declines, although the average quail hen can still produce 200 or more eggs annually.
At what age do California quail lay eggs?
Quail eggs are available on the breakfast menu much sooner than chicken eggs. Some Quail will lay their first egg at 2 months of age compared to chickens that take 18-20 weeks
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Beautiful!! What are they like to eat?
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Corn
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Dude this is all just a copy and paste from Wikipedia
Yes. The text is from Wikipedia as mentioned in the channel description. Sorry if you are disappointed.