Callipepla squamata

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• Biology
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Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: arid montane scrubs, northern temperate grasslands, arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub • Minimum Elevation: 800 meters • Maximum Elevation: 2,100 meters • Foraging Strata: Terrestrial • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,793 meters (0 to 9,163 feet).Mean = 1,319.510 meters (4,329.101 feet), Standard Deviation = 486.430 based on 4,862 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.

Ecology:
List of Habitats :3.7Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude 4.4Grassland - Temperate 14.6Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest

Biology

Diet

Primarily:

Seeds

Lesser Quantities of: Insects

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Successional-scrub
• Clutch Size: 9-16
• Length of Incubation : 21-23 days
• Number of Broods: 1

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Callipepla squamata (Vigors) 1830

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 06-Aug-2005.

Similar Species

Northern Bobwhite, Gambel's Quail

Members of the genus Callipepla

There are approximately 23 species in this genus:

C. californica (Animals) · C. californica achrustera (California Quail) · C. californica brunnescens (California Quail) · C. californica californica · C. californica canfieldae · C. californica catalinensis · C. californica plumbae · C. californica ssp · C. californica vallicola (California Quail) · C. douglasii (Animals) · C. douglasii bensoni · C. douglasii douglasii · C. douglasii teres · C. gambelii (Animals) · C. gambelii fulvipectus · C. gambelii gambelii · C. gambelli · C. squamata (Scaled Quail) · C. squamata castanogastra · C. squamata castanogastris (Scaled Quail) · C. squamata hargravei · C. squamata pallida (Scaled Quail) · C. squamata squamata (Scaled Quail)

Bibliography

• Alsop, Fred J. III. Birds of North America - Eastern Region. First American Edition. Smithsonian Handbooks. DK Publishing, Inc. 2001.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
• Bird Reference Citations. The numbers inserted in the text accounts above (usually in bold) refer to references. For further details on these references, click on the BirdLife International link above to go to the specific species account on the BirdLife web site. In some cases, particularly in the taxonomic notes, the references are cited using the author names. Details for these can be found on the BirdLife International web site at the following two places: For References from A–L. For References from M–Z.
• BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
• BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
• Dickinson, E. C., ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checlist of the Birds of the World, 3rd edition. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey, USA. 1039. ISBN: 0-691-11701-2.
• Ehrlich, P., Dobkin, D., and Wheye, D. (1988). The Birders Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc. (info on clutch size, length of incubation, days to fledge and number of broods.)
• Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc. (Length and wingspan info.)

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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. Callipepla squamata. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. and lt;www.iucnredlist.org and gt;. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 4, 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 11, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 10 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 18, 2008.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
• Sauer, J. R., J. E. Hines, and J. Fallon. 2005. The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Results and Analysis 1966 - 2004. Version 2005.2. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD
• Sauer, J. R., S. Schwartz, and B. Hoover. 1996. The Christmas Bird Count Home Page. Version 95.1. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 11, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Royal Ontario Museum: Bird specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Colorado Museum: Zoological specimens
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3854622
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-677580
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13852620
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 175872
• IUCN ID: 47100
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNLC23010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 177976

Footnotes

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