#1064 · 🐦 birds
California Quail
🇳🇱 Californische Kuifkwartel ·Callipepla californica
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- 1. © Caiden · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 9. © Vivian · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The California quail ( Callipepla californica ), also known as the California valley quail or valley quail , is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. These birds have a curving crest or plume , made of six feathers, that droops forward: black in males and brown in females; the flanks are brown with white streaks. Males have a dark brown cap and a black face with a brown back, a grey-blue chest and a light brown...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 53,352 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by George Shaw in 1798 (228 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- California Quail
- Nederlands
- Californische Kuifkwartel
- scientific name
- Callipepla californica
- class
- Aves
- order
- Galliformes
- family
- Odontophoridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 28
- sightings worldwide
- 53,352
- GBIF records in NL
- 57
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1798 by George Shaw
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Odontophoridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1409, Wikidata Q830385, GBIF 5228080, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.