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ShrublandScrapeMedium · 177 g
What the Elegant Quail sounds like
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The elegant quail grows to a length of about 25 cm (10 in). The male has a distinctive long, straight, golden-buff crest (the female's crest is grey). In other ways the sexes are similar in appearance, being mainly grey with spotting and streaking in black, brown and white, and in the case of the male, in reddish-brown as well. The beak is black, the irises are brown and the legs dark grey to black. This bird can be distinguished from the otherwise similar scaled quail (C. squamata), California quail (C. californica), and Gambel's quail (C.
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When to see the Elegant Quail
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Elegant Quail
The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United States.
About the Elegant Quail
The elegant quail is a species of New World quail endemic to Pacific-slope thorn forest of north-western Mexico, from southern Sonora to Nayarit. These are common, mainly ground-dwelling birds, and the IUCN has rated them as being a "species of least concern".
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Easily confused with
Scaled QuailCallipepla squamataThis bird is named for the scaly appearance of its breast and back feathers.
Gambel's QuailCallipepla gambeliiThe Callipepla gambelii birds are easily recognized by their top knots and scaly plumage on their undersides.
California QuailCallipepla californicaThese birds have a curving crest, plume or topknot, longer in males than females.
Side by side: California Quail vs Elegant Quail · Elegant Quail vs Gambel's Quail · Elegant Quail vs Scaled Quail
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