Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii)

Other Scientific Names
Lophortyx gambelii [Stotz et al. (1996)]

Other Names (World)
Gambel's Quail, Desert Quail

Family
Odontophoridae (New World Quails)

Size
25 cm

First Described (Guide)
Gambel, 1843

Habitat
Hot desert. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, arable land. From sea-level - 1,600 m.

Range (Guide)

Mexico, USA (B).

Population
Estimated population is 1,800,000 (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (101)...)

Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) [XC317298]
by Paul Marvin from bird feeders on Foothills Road, Portal, Arizona, United States (song)

Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) [XC362518]
by Paul Marvin from Indian Wash, Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, United States (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with California Quail (Callipepla californica) and sometimes considered conspecific.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

gambelii Gambel, 1843 - Southern Utah and Nevada, western USA, south to Baja California, north-western Mexico.
sana (Mearns, 1914) - Western Colorado, west-central USA.
ignoscens (Friedmann, 1943) - Southern New Mexico and extreme western Texas, south-central USA.
pembertoni (van Rossem, 1932) - Tiburon I, in Gulf of California, north-western Mexico.
fulvipectus Nelson, 1899 - North-central to south-western Sonora, north-western Mexico. Possibly also south-eastern Arizona and south-western New Mexico, south-western USA.
stephensi (Phillips, AR, 1959) - Southern Sonora, north-western Mexico.
friedmanni (Moore, 1947) - Coastal and north-western Sinaloa, north-western Mexico.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Gambels Quail (Callipepla gambelii) - 10 files

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