Biology:Callipepla

Callipepla is a genus of birds in the New World quail family, Odontophoridae.^[1] They are sometimes referred to as crested quails.

Species

Genus *Callipepla* – Wagler, 1832 – four species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
California quail Male Female	Callipepla californica (Shaw, 1798) Seven subspecies C. c. californica (Shaw, 1798) C. c. achrustera (Peters, 1923) C. c. brunnescens (Ridgway, 1884) C. c. canfieldae (Van Rossem, 1939) C. c. catalinensis (Grinnell, 1906) C. c. orecta (Oberholser, 1932) C. c. plumbea (Grinnell, 1926)	Southwestern United States to the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, Canada	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Elegant quail Male	Callipepla douglasii (Vigors, 1829)	Sonora and southwestern Chihuahua to northern Jalisco, Mexico	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Gambel's quail Male Female	Callipepla gambelii (Gambel, 1843) Two subspecies C. g. fulvipectus (Nelson, 1899) C. g. gambelii (Gambel, 1843)	Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and Sonora; also New Mexico-border Chihuahua and the Colorado River region of Baja California.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Scaled quail^[1] Male Female	Callipepla squamata (Vigors, 1830) Four subspecies C. s. squamata Vigors, 1830 C. s. pallida Brewster, 1881 C. s. hargravei Rea, 1973 C. s. castanogastris Brewster, 1883	South-central Arizona, northern New Mexico, east-central Colorado, and southwestern Kansas south through western Oklahoma and western and central Texas into Mexico to northeastern Jalisco, Guanajuato, Queretaru, Hidalgo, and western Tamaulipas	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC