Scaled Quail
Callipepla squamata
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The scaled quail, also commonly called blue quail or cottontop, is a species of the New World quail family. It is a bluish gray bird found in the arid regions of the Southwestern United States to Central Mexico. This species is an early offshoot of the genus Callipepla, diverging in the Pliocene.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Galliformes
- Family
- Odontophoridae
- Genus
- Callipepla