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Printable version; Page information; ... Male Gambel's Quail in Mesa, Arizona. Date: 6 June 2009, 14:17:42 ... White balance: Auto white balance:
Female with a white-winged dove. The Callipepla gambelii birds are easily recognized by their top knots and scaly plumage on their undersides. Gambel's quail have bluish-gray plumage on much of their bodies, and males have copper feathers on the top of their heads, black faces, and white stripes above their eyes.
C. s. sallei Verreaux 1859 (Salle's spot-breasted quail) Dactylortyx (Gambel 1848) Ogilvie-Grant 1893: long-toed/Singing quail, Dactylortyx thoracicus (Gambel 1848) Ogilvie-Grant 1893. D. t. pettingilli Warner & Harrell 1957; D. t. thoracicus (Gambel 1848) (Veracruz singing quail) D. t. sharpei Nelson 1903 (Yucatán singing quail) D. t ...
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The elegant quail grows to a length of about 25 cm (10 in). [2] 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.
Both Button and Coturnix quail have different feather coloring due to years of breeding. The common and wild Coturnix quail color is the Pharaoh breed, which is a brown feather color. The Button quail has a red belly, blue body, black and white head, and a brown back all in one (only present in males; females are a brown color all over).
William Gambel (June 1823 – December 13, 1849) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, and botanist from Philadelphia. As a young man he worked closely with the renowned naturalist Thomas Nuttall .
The gnatcatchers are mainly soft bluish gray in color and have the typical insectivore's long sharp bill. Many species have distinctive black head patterns (especially males) and long, regularly cocked, black-and-white tails. Two species have been recorded in Nevada. Blue-gray gnatcatcher, Polioptila caerulea