If you're a birder, you'll know what a life list is. It's basically a list of all the bird species one has observed and positively ID'd in one's lifetime. This blog is a record of my "critter" life list (mostly of birds), including photos I've taken over the years, some of the actual lifer if I was lucky enough to get the shot. Don't expect National Geographic quality stuff here, just the work of an amateur photog who loves to trudge out into nature.

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

California Quail (Callipepla californica)


12/17/10 Under one of the bird feeders off our driveway. La Cresta, Murrieta, 
SW Riverside County, CA
4/29/17 Under the bird feeder, Kyle Court, La Cresta, Murrieta, CA
 12/31/17 Kyle Court, La Cresta, Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA

12/31/17 Kyle Court, La Cresta, Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: California Quail 

SPECIES: Callipepla californica

LIFE LIST DATE: 1/4/2005

LOCATION: Ranch House at Montana de Oro State Park, San Luis Obispo County, CA (Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival event "Birding Islay Creek" with docents Freeman & Worth Hall)

From Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Western Region

IDENTIFYING MARKS: 10"; both sexes have a black plume on forehead and a scaled appearance to belly. Male: black chin; light forehead. Female: light chin. 

VOICE: Location call is a 3-note chi-ca-go, lower pitched than Gambel's Quail's. Unmated males give a cow note. 
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