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	 California Quail (Callipepla californica)
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| Subject: | California Quail (Callipepla californica) 
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Date: 2004:12:13 22:00:49
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 Title: California Quail
 Alternative Title: Callipepla californica
 Creator: Karney, Lee
 Source: WO-Lee Karney-7603
 Publisher: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
 Contributor: DIVISION OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
 Language: EN - ENGLISH
 Rights: (public domain)
 Audience: (general)
 Subject: Karney, Land birds
 Date Issued: April 06 2004
 
 
 The California quail (Callipepla californica), also known as the California valley quail or valley quail, is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. These birds have a curving crest or plume, made of six feathers, that droops forward: black in males and brown in females; the flanks are brown with white streaks.
 
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 |  |  | Guest |  |  | Scientific Name:	Callipepla californica (Shaw, 1798) Common Names:	California Quail, California Valley Quail, Valley Quail
 French: Colin de Californie; German: Schopfwachtel; Spanish: Colín de California, Codorniz californiana
 Taxonomy: Tetrao californicus Shaw, 1798, Monterey, California, USA.
 Synonyms:
 Lophortyx californica (Shaw, 1798)
 Lophortyx californicus
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