Mountain Quail
Oreortyx pictus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,384
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The mountain quail (Oreortyx pictus) is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. This species is the only one in the genus Oreortyx, which is sometimes included in Callipepla. This is not appropriate, however, as the mountain quail's ancestors diverged from other New World quails earlier than the bobwhites, no later than 6 mya.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Mountain quail”.