Male: crown chestnut; comma-shaped, forward-leaning topknot; face and throat patch
black, bordered in white; upper parts, chest gray; belly yellow with large black
spot; sides chestnut; striped white.
Female: drabber. Head plain gray; topknot thinner.
Scaled Quail - confirmed presence
Callipepla squamata
Size: 11" - New World Quail
Back, wings, tail, sides pale gray; sides white stripes; entire neck and chest
gray with black scales; Head gray with white crest.
The Tewa name for this bird is "sagebrush softness".
Sighted at the
Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve (an isolated high mountain group --
7,000 to 9,000 feet elevation -- eight miles south of Cerrillos.)
Scaled Quail - June '02
Scaled Quail - as of '04
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the
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