California Quail

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Introduction:
These birds have a curvature summit or plume, made of six feathers that droop onward: black in males and brown for females; the flank are brown with white streak. Males have a shady brown cap and a black face with a brown back, a grey-blue torso and a light brown abdomen. Females and young birds are mainly grey-brown with a fair-haired belly.
The California quail is a vastly friendly bird that regularly gathers in little flocks known as "coveys". One of their daily communal behavior is a dirt bath. A group of recoil will select an area where the earth has been recently curved or is supple, and using their underbellies, will warren descending into the dirt a few one to two inch. They then wiggle about in the indentation they have shaped, flap their wings and ruffle their feathers, cause sand to rise in the air. They appear to like superior vivid places in which to produce this earth pool. An ornithologist is able to sense the company of shy away in an area by spot the round indentation left after in the supple dust, a few 7–15 cm (3-6 inches) in diameter.
Their reproduction environment is shrubby areas and open woodland in western North America. The nest is a superficial scratch creased with plant life positioned on the earth below a plant or other coat. The female frequently lays just about twelve eggs. Once they are hatch, the youthful connect with both adults. Often, families cluster jointly, into multifamily "collective brood" which includes at slightest two females, numerous males and many progeny. Males connected with families are not always the hereditary fathers. In good existence, females will lay more than one grasp, send-off the hatch youthful with the linked male and laying a new hold, often with a dissimilar connected male.

They have a assortment of vocalizations counting the communal "chicago" call, make contact with "pips" and caveat "pips.