Scaled Quail
by Debra Martz
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Scaled Quail
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Debra Martz
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Photograph - Photography
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Scaled Quail by Debra Martz
Kept seeing quite a few of these quail along a gravel road in Brantley Lake State Park, New Mexico. Finally got out of the truck and started walking to see if I would be lucky enough to have one come out in the open and sure enough several came out running!
They are good runners and usually run from predators, rarely choosing to fly far. At night, they roost in groups on the ground and form a small circle with their heads facing outward. When temperatures are cooler, this roosting circle becomes tighter. Scaled Quails are monogamous and unmated males call to attract mates throughout the breeding season.
Scaled Quail live year-round in desert grasslands and shrub-lands of the Southwest, including open plains, hills, mesas, sagebrush, and pinyon-juniper woodlands up to about 7,000 feet elevation.
Scientific name: callipepla squamata
©Debra Martz, All Rights Reserved
In My Gallery/Collection: Feathered Friends
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January 2nd, 2017
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Larry Kniskern
Congratulations, Debra – your wild land fowl scene has been featured by the Go Take a Hike Photography Group! Feel free to add it to the 2022 Featured Images thread in the group discussion board for archive.
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