Mountain quail (Oreortyx pictus)

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The largest quail north of Mexico, the mountain quail is secretive and inhabits dense shrub and forest habitats of the Pacific Coast and western Great Basin of North America. It differs from other North American quail in many ways, including its ability to exploit high-elevation habitats by making long-distance seasonal movements, its sexual monomorphism in ritualized behaviors, and its unusually high degree of herbivory and ability to exploit temporarily abundant foods. Significant declines in Great Basin populations have motivated renewed research. This species account includes what is known about the characteristics, life history, and conservation needs of the mountain quail.

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Location:This record is for the online version; a note is also filed in ELECTRONIC FILES - Zoology: Birds. Note also that the original 1999 document printed by BNA should be available in the Wildlife Bureau on reference shelves in the black-boxed BNA collection [B99GUT01IDUS].)

Recommended Citation:
Gutiérrez, R. J. and David J. Delehanty. 1999. Mountain Quail (Oreortyx pictus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/457 doi:10.2173/bna.457.

SWAP (2/19/2016) Citation (though these BNA ones should be changed to match the style of the SWAP bibliography):
Gutiérrez RJ, Delehanty DJ. 1999. Mountain quail (Oreortyx pictus). The Birds of North America Online. (A Poole, editor). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. [accessed 2015 Jun 01]. http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/457/.

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