#quails

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Scaled Quail

Photo: Grigory Heaton

"Dry southwestern grasslands provide a home for this blue-gray quail. Coveys of Scaled Quail travel about on foot; even when disturbed, they tend to run rather than flying. In the concealing cover of the short grass they can be inconspicuous except in spring, when males often call from atop fenceposts or exposed rocks. At night, coveys of Scaled Quail roost on the ground in dense low growth."

- Audubon Field Guide

#birds #scaled quail #birds of north america #north american birds #quail #quails #birds of the us #birds of mexico #landfowl #bird watching #birdblr #birblr #bird of the day #Callipepla squamata

[nobrashfestivity]

Kōno Bairei Kudzu Vine and Quails Bairei's Flowers and Birds Woodblock Print 1883 (H x W): 14.5 x 9.4 (inches) Publisher: Okura Magobei Signature: Bairei (sealed)

#Bairei #Kōno Bairei #Japanese painter #kono bairei #japanese art #woodblock print #ukiyoe #color woodblock #japanese #woodcut #quails #nobrashfestivity

[kedreeva]

I didn’t know there were different species of quail?! I thought all males had the silly (cute) forehead feather. If you want to tell us all about quail, I would love to hear, but I also possess the Googles. Anyway, your birds make me smile. Thank you for posting about them.

oh there's like a million species lol I don't know much about any of them, just names and I can recognize a lot of them. I raised Bobwhite quail (my favorites) for wild local release since they're native to michigan.

I'm raising Celadon quail now, which are coturnix with the celadon (Ce) gene, which strips their eggs of the splotchy bloom coating, leaving them blue.

Here's what the wild type looks like:

There's a species of coturnix called a rain quail:

The ones with the little head doot you're PROBABLY thinking of are valley quail (California quail, I think they're also called?).

And the really similar Gambel's quail:

There's button quail

blue scaled quail which have a crest, not a doot

Montezuma quail which honestly may be a very big hoax I mean look at these fuckers:

Which are different somehow than the ocellated quail which are just as ridiculous:

Mountain quail which couldn't decide if it wanted a crest or a doot I guess:

the elegant quail:

there's a bunch more too, but. yeah quail come in all sorts of Shapes and colors. they're neat little birds. I think the bobwhites, valley, gambel's, scaled, mountain, and uhhhh montezuma quails? are native to the US, but not all of them are in every state.

#quails #quail #my pets #asks #birds

[antiqueanimals]

Florida Wildlife; vol. 11, no. 6. November, 1957. Illustration by Wallace Hughes.

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#birds #landfowl #quails #bobwhite quail #Wallace Hughes

[snototter]

A male California quail (Callipepla californica) in Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California

by Robyn Waayers

#california quail #quails #gamebirds #birds #callipepla californica #callipepla #odontophoridae #galliformes #aves #chordata #wildlife: california #wildlife: usa #wildlife: north america

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Birds

Galliformes. This order contains chickens, turkeys, quail, and peafowl

Columbiformes. This order is made up of doves and pigeons

#animals #biology #polls #poll tournament #zoology #chickens #turkeys #quails #birds #tetrapods #doves #pigeons #Galliformes #Columbiformes #0x37v0x48

[lunepick]

#hatoful boyfriend #quails

[comox-draws]

awolnation voice "QUAIL" I looooove these little doofuses --- tiktok instagram

#artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr #illustration #digital art #character design #quails #doodles

[life-take]

my favorite photos i took when i visited sequoia a few years ago (unedited)

my first time seeing ca quails in person!

#my photography #pretending to be a photographer #quails #california quails #california quail #nature photography #birds

[forestduck]

Mar 13, 2013 - .

#pinterest #nature #beautiful #pretty #cottagecore #offgrid #wanderlust #aesthetic #quail #farm #chicken #quails #poultry #game birds #bird #birds #calfornia quail #Californian quail #california quail #calfornia #animals #off grid #farming #hobby farm #homestead #grow your own #eggs #quail eggs

[give-a-rating]

#animal #quails #quail #submitted by glamrockstardustcookie

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Montezuma Quail

Photo: budgora

"Despite its bold and bizarre pattern, this little quail of the Mexican border regions can be remarkably hard to see. When approached, pairs or coveys of Montezuma Quail may crouch motionless until they are practically stepped upon; then they explode into flight, to whir away across the hillsides. Fall and winter coveys usually have fewer than ten birds, and they often range over a very limited area."

- Audubon Field Guide

#birds #montezuma quail #birds of north america #north american birds #birds of mexico #birds of the us #mearns quail #quail #quails #landfowl #birding #bird watching #birdblr #birblr #bird of the day #Cyrtonyx montezumae

[classic-asian-art]

Quails and Full Moon, c.early 1900s (colour woodblock print) by Tsukioka Kogyo (Undated, colour woodblock print)

#art #artwork #kunst #kunstwerk #tsukioka kogyo #asian art #asiatische kunst #quails #wachteln #birds #vögel #animals #tiere #nature #natur #grass #gras #night #nacht #group #gruppe #moon #moonlight #full moon #mond #vollmond #mondlicht #art print

[kedreeva]

Celadon coturnix quail eggies!

It's incredibly difficult to get a photo of them, because my phone keeps trying to color correct them to white. But I figured out it takes half a second to think about it, so if I whip the camera over onto them and snap the pic without any hesitation, it will take the pic as it first sees it, without adjustment.

But they are SO pretty. The last hatch I did in the fall is laying age now, as well, and there are a couple of brown layers and the rest blue. I'm going to have to do an exclusively brown layer hatch, since it looks like only three actually were girls and nicely sized. I'll start pulling eggs to hatch starting next month. Since Indie went home, I won't be hatching any peafowl this year, so time for lots of quail!

#peafowl #quail #celadon quail #coturnix quail #quails #eggs

[antiqueanimals]

Cover of Florida Wildlife; vol. 9, no. 5. October 1955.

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#birds #landfowl #quails #bobwhite quail #canines #dogs #gundogs #hunting #signature

[bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: California Quail

^Image credit: Jörg Hempel

California Quail (Callipepla californica)

As its name suggests, the California Quail is the state bird of California, a title which was selected in 1931. They are highly sociable birds, gathering in small flocks known as 'coveys'. They commonly engage in communal dust bathing, wriggling and flapping about in small indentations in soft ground that they create with their bellies.

#bird of the day #birds of america #birds of north america #birds of california #california quail #california quails #quails #quail #cute birds #cute bird #cute animals #birds #birdwatching #birding #bird facts #bird #ca-li-for-nia quails they're unforgettable~ #eat-ing seeds and beeping a lot~