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CALIFORNIA QUAIL or VALLEY QUAIL
Callipepla californica
©Quality QuailThe California quail lives in grasslands, foothills, woodlands, canyons and at the edge of deserts. It likes areas with lots of brush. The California quail eats seeds, plant parts and sometimes. They feed in flocks in the early morning.
Males often compete for a mate. They mate with only one female. Females usually lay between 12-16 cream and brown speckled eggs. Their nest is a shallow hollow or scrape in the ground that is lined with grass. The female incubates the eggs for about three weeks. Both parents care for the chicks. The chicks leave the nest shortly after birth. They make their first attempts at flight when they are about 10 days old, and will fly when flushed but generally prefer to run for cover. As adults they roost in trees as a group. The California State Bird.
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WE HAVE THESE WHERE I LIVE.
THEY ARE ANNOYING
AND THE NOISE THEY MAKE SOUNDS LIKE THEY ARE SCREAMING “FAGGOT”
I KNOW! We use to have SO many in our yard. My grandmother use to feed them. Then she’d get pissed with other birds ate the quails food. My dog use to try to eat them. But he was to fat to catch them. But, in all seriousness, one of the hawks ripped off one of the quails legs and my grandmother nursed it back to health. Every day at 5 oclock, he would sit on my grandmothers fence (She had a SMALL backyard), and wait to be feed. every. damn. day.
Source: animalworld
IT’S A FUCKING
I KNOW! We use to have SO many in our yard. My grandmother use to feed them. Then she’d get pissed with other birds ate...