Elegant Quail (Callipepla douglasii)
About the Elegant Quail
The elegant quail (Callipepla douglasii) is a species of New World quail endemic to Pacific-slope thorn forest of north-western Mexico, from southern Sonora to Nayarit. These are common, mainly ground-dwelling birds, and the IUCN has rated them as being a "species of least concern".
A real field recording of the Elegant Quail. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Mexico · xeno-canto lists 54 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- California QuailCallipepla californicarecording
- Gambel's QuailCallipepla gambeliiprofile
- Scaled QuailCallipepla squamataprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.