New World Quails

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Several individuals on forest ground (only one is vocalizing here). Recording distance was aprox 8 meters. bird-seen:yes playback-used:no

the same five or six birds (three pairs?) spread around over 120 degrees, and I moved back and forth; a variety of female and male song-calls, often given in a paired fashion, but also separately; second half of recording generally louder, with loudest female songs after 6:49; I did see birds briefly a couple of times, but really have no idea what was going on; third recording of these birds, this the first portion bird-seen:yes playback-used:no

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Response to playback.

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Habitat: secondary evergreen forest. bird-seen:no playback-used:no

Possibly the chortle at the end of the long series may be from the female, with the male giving the whistles. Low in understory for forest. Not seen; response to whistled imitation?

Santiago area, Chile

California Quail (Callipepla californica) are the common quail of southern California. These cocks were calling in the brush around Carmel Valley Road, East of Carmel, April, 1999.

Quail (Colinus virginianus Linnaeus).

USNM 444320 Colinus

273027 Odontophorus stellatus

Synoptic skeleton image, Colinus virginianus, female, tibiotarsus, caudal

USNM 50598 Cyrtonyx ocellatus

USNM 101952 Colinus cristatus leucopogon

USNM 444319 Colinus(2)

USNM 110501 Callipepla douglasii bensoni

Point Reyes National Seashore

Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge