Oreortyx pictus

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Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: arid montane scrubs, tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine-oak forests • Minimum Elevation: 1,250 meters • Maximum Elevation: 2,800 meters • Foraging Strata: Terrestrial • Center of Abundance: Middle montane: mountains, middle range, 1,600-2,600 m. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,765 meters (0 to 9,072 feet).[1]

Ecology:
List of Habitats :1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane 3.7Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude

Biology

Diet

Almost Exclusively: Seeds

Lesser Quantities of: Green Plant Matter Insects

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Successional-scrub
• Nest Location: N/A
• Nest Type: N/A
• Clutch Size: 7-12
• Length of Incubation : 21-24 days
• Days to Fledge : ?
• Number of Broods: 1, occasionally 2 at low elevations

Migration

Permanent resident

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Oreotyx pictus (Douglas, 1829)

Notes

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

Similar Species

Chestnut throat, blue-gray cap, and straight head plume separate it from the other quail species.

Members of the genus Oreortyx

There are approximately 12 species in this genus:

O. picta (Mountain Quail) · O. picta confinis · O. picta eremophilus (Mountain Quail) · O. picta palmeri · O. picta picta (Mountain Quail) · O. pictus (Mountain Partridge) · O. pictus confinis (San Pedro Partridge) · O. pictus eremophilus (Desert Mountain Quail) · O. pictus palmeri (Mountain Quail) · O. pictus pictus (Mountain Partridge) · O. pictus plumifer (Plumed Partridge) · O. pictus russelli (Pallid Mountain Quail)

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Further Reading

• A bibliography of birds: with special reference to anatomy, behavior, biochemistry --. by Reuben Myron Strong Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1959 UND url p. 125, p. 516.
• A hand-book to the game-birds / by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant. London: E. Lloyd, 1896-1897. ENG url p. 118, p. 118, p. 308.
• A history of North American birds, by S.F. Baird, T.M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. Land birds, illustrated by 64 chromo-lithographic plates and 593 woodcuts. Boston, Little, Brown, 1875. ENG url p. 475.
• A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. ENG url p. 620.
• Animal Ecology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1961. ENG url p. 461.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. ENG url p. 108, p. 218.
• Asteroid notes. Northfield, Minn, Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1934-1950. ENG url p. 248, p. 66.
• 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 notes. Brighton: Foreign Bird Club: 1902-1925. ENG url p. 90.
• 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.
• Birds of California; an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies, by Irene Grosvenor Wheelock with ten fullpag Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1912. ENG url p. 574.
• Birds of the Northwest: a hand-book of the ornithology of the region drained by the Missouri River and its tributaries / by Elliott Coues. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1874. ENG url p. 440.
• Birds. With the co-operation of John Cassin and George N. Lawrence. Washington, D.C., 1858. ENG url p. 642, p. 990.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 246, p. 257, p. 259, p. 260, p. 263, p. 460, p. 468, p. 480.
• Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France. Paris: La Société, FRE url p. 200.
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• Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Cambridge, Mass.: The Club, [1876-1883] ENG url p. 99.
• Catalogue of Canadian birds, by John Macoun and James M. Macoun Ottawa, Government printing bureau, 1909. ENG url p. 215.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History and including all species and subspecies known to occur in North America, Mexico, Central America, South America, the West Indies, and islands of the Caribbean Chicago, 1918- ENG url p. 228, p. 232.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. ENG url p. 397.
• Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum / By E. W. Oates [and afterwards] by S. G. Reid [and] W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, 1901-12. ENG url p. 66.
• Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) By George Albert Boulenger, F.R.S. London, Printed by order of the Trustees [by Taylor and Francis]1909-16. ENG url p. 71.
• Color key to North American birds, by Frank M. Chapman with upward of 800 drawings by Chester A. Reed, B. S. New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1903. ENG url p. 267, p. 302.
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• Field ornithology. Comprising a manual of instruction for procuring, preparing and preserving birds, and a check list of North American birds, by Elliott Coues. Salem [Mass.]Naturalists' Agency, 1874. ENG url p. 79.
• Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley, by Florence Merriam Bailey, with thirty-three full-page plates by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and over six hundred cuts in the Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1904. ENG url p. 117, p. 45.
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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
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• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 10, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 7 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 10, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Royal British Columbia Museum
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3854621
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-677579
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13792382
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 175893
• IUCN ID: 47099
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNLC24010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13372

Footnotes

1. Mean = 1,234.010 meters (4,048.589 feet), Standard Deviation = 517.440 based on 5,749 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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