California Quail

Callipepla californica

Least Concern

The California Quail is a sociable western North American quail with a distinctive comma-shaped head plume. It favors chaparral, oak woodland, brushy suburbs, farms, and open woodland edges, feeding in coveys on seeds, leaves, and insects. It is common and adaptable across much of its native range.

Family

Odontophoridae

Group

New World Quail

Range

California Quail Range — Western North America from the Pacific Northwest through California and Baja California, with introduced populations elsewhere

Population

≈ 5.8M

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