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California quail are common birds in the western US, and are often found in gardens and yards. They have a very characteristic three-note whistle call. The female quail at the bottom of this page was alarm-calling at me in Two Trees Canyon in Riverside, California (I think I was near her chicks). The more flamboyantly-colored males were making territorial calls atop granite boulders at the University of California's Motte Rimrock Reserve, near Perris, California or resting on a fence rail at the nearby San Jacinto Wildlife Area (upper left); the male below two rows down at right was calling from a small tree in Two Trees Canyon (this photo shows the 'scaly' belly pattern particularly well). Finally, the male at the bottom of the page was photographed in Crowley Lake, in the eastern Sierra Nevada in Mono County, California. The species has been widely introduced across the globe, and I've seen them in Australia and New Zealand as well as the US. |
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