#1445 · 🐦 birds
Gambel's Quail
🇳🇱 Gambels Kuifkwartel ·Callipepla gambelii
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © uzun · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Andrej Chudý · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Emilie Chen · CC BY-ND 4.0
- 4. © Andrej Chudý · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Annika Lindqvist · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Emilie Chen · CC BY-ND 4.0
- 7. © David Martin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © kkerrg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Lorraine Briddon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © lonnyholmes · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Gambel's quail ( Callipepla gambelii ) is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. It inhabits the desert regions of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and Sonora; also New Mexico-border Chihuahua and the Colorado River region of Baja California. The Gambel's quail is named in honor of William Gambel, a 19th-century naturalist and explorer of the Southwestern United States.
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.
- 19,784 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 10 g.
- Scientifically named by William Gambel in 1843 (183 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Gambel's Quail
- Nederlands
- Gambels Kuifkwartel
- scientific name
- Callipepla gambelii
- class
- Aves
- order
- Galliformes
- family
- Odontophoridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 19,784
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- 9.5 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1843 by William Gambel
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Odontophoridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1406, Wikidata Q1007906, GBIF 5228072, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.