Oreortyx pictus

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Name：Oreortyx pictus

Alias：Oreortyx pictus，Mountain Quail

Outline：Landfowl

Family：Chickeniformes Ornithidae Ornithidae

length：26-28cm

Weight：200-290g

Life：No textual research information is available

IUCN：LC

Trait：There are two crests like radar, sometimes raised, sometimes attached to the back of the head

Oreortyx pictus Life habits and morphological characteristics

The quail is 26-28 cm long, with a wingspan of 35-40 cm, 200-290 g. It has rounded wings shorter than its body length and long featherless legs. These birds have two radar-like crests, sometimes raised and sometimes attached to the back of the head, which are easily distinguished from other birds by the characteristics of their crest, this unique crest is also present in females, but shorter. Quails have brown cheeks, gray chest, brown back, and black and white stripes on their underbelly.

Oreortyx pictus Distribution range and habitat

Canada, northernmost to Vancouver Island, southernmost to northern Baja California; Sierra Leone Juarez and Sierra Leone SAN Pedro Matil in Mexico; The United States includes the mountains of northwestern North America, including the Falls, the Coast Range, the Sierra Nevada Transversal Range, and the Peninsula Range. It is found in California, Nevada, Oregon, southeast Washington, and Southwest Idaho.
It inhabits the mountains west of the Rocky Mountains, from the United States to the Jaw Peninsula of Mexico, British Columbia, Canada, and some areas of Washington State, USA. 3000m above sea level. It is a non-migratory species, and some may live at high elevations in some mountain ranges.

Oreortyx pictus Detailed Introduction

Mountain Quail (Oreortyx pictus) has five subspecies.

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Quails are terrestrial birds that move and walk mainly on the ground. In late summer or fall and winter, adult and subadult birds move in family units, gathering into groups of more than 20 birds. Quails can also fly short distances, often quickly for a short period of time before slowly returning to the ground in the face of danger and disturbance.

The quail's diet consists mainly of plants and seeds. Chicks are significantly more insectivorous than adults and gradually consume more plant matter as they mature.

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Quails are monogamous. During the breeding season, female birds usually choose to dig a shallow hole in an area where vegetation is hidden, at the bottom of a tree or brush, usually near a water source, and lay 9 to 10 eggs. Incubation lasts 21-25 days and is usually performed by the female, rarely by the male. Young birds are precocious and can leave the nest with their parents within a few hours of hatching, searching for food as they go.

Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2016 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 - Not Threatened (LC).

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