Spotted Wood Quail (Odontophorus guttatus) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Spotted Wood Quail (Odontophorus guttatus), photo 1 — Photo: Karen Szafrajda · CC BY 4.0

Spotted Wood Quail (Odontophorus guttatus), photo 2 — Photo: Anthony Mora Aguilar · CC BY 4.0

Spotted Wood Quail (Odontophorus guttatus), photo 3 — Photo: Rob Foster · CC BY 4.0

Spotted Wood Quail (Odontophorus guttatus), photo 4 — Photo: Rob Foster · CC BY 4.0

Spotted Wood Quail (Odontophorus guttatus), photo 9 — Photo: Rob Foster · CC BY 4.0

Spotted Wood Quail (Odontophorus guttatus), photo 10 — Photo: Rob Foster · CC BY 4.0

What the Spotted Wood Quail sounds like

Sonogram of the Spotted Wood Quail: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Beth Cottam · Cerro de La Muerte--km 70, Mirador de Quetzales, Costa Rica · CC0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Spotted Wood Quail

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Spotted Wood Quail

Regular range

The map shades 7 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Costa Rica Panama Belize Guatemala Mexico Honduras Nicaragua

About the Spotted Wood Quail

The spotted wood quail is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. It is a resident breeder in the mountains of Central America from southern Mexico to western Panama.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Chestnut Wood QuailOdontophorus hyperythrusThe chestnut wood quail is 25 to 29 cm (9.8 to 11.4 in) long.

Marbled Wood QuailOdontophorus gujanensisAdult marbled wood quails grow to a length of between 23 and 29 cm (9 and 11 in).

Spot-winged Wood QuailOdontophorus capueiraMale and female spot-winged wood quails are similar in appearance but the female is slightly smaller.

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