Scaled Quail (Callipepla squamata)

Other Names (World)
Scaled Quail, Blue Quail

Family
Odontophoridae (New World Quails)

Size
25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vigors, 1830)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, temperate grassland. From 800 - 2,100 m.

Range (Guide)

Mexico, USA (B).

Population
Estimated population is 1,200,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (57)...)

Scaled Quail (Callipepla squamata) [XC153673]
by Micah Riegner from Post Rd Park, Marathon, Brewster County, Texas, United States (wing sounds in flight)

Scaled Quail (Callipepla squamata) [XC255097]
by Richard E. Webster from Foothills Road, Cochise County, Arizona, United States (call, chip call)

Subspecies
Sometimes considered conspecific with Elegant Quail (Callipepla douglasii).

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

hargravei Rea, 1973 - South-eastern Colorado, south-western Kansas, northern New Mexico, western Oklahoma and north-western Texas, west-central USA.
pallida Brewster, 1881 - Southern Arizona, southern New Mexico and western Texas, south-central USA, to northern Chihuahua and northern Sonora, north-western Mexico.
squamata (Vigors, 1830) - Northern Sonora and northern Tamaulipas south to Valley of Mexico, Mexico.
castanogastris Brewster, 1883 - Southern Texas, southern USA, and north-eastern Mexico.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Scaled Quail (Callipepla squamata) - 10 files

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