Showing posts with label California Quail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California Quail. Show all posts

Thursday, June 29, 2017

CALIFORNIAN QUAIL

Photographed at Shakespear Regional Park, June 2017
(*   747)                CALIFORNIAN QUAIL                Callipepla californica  

NEW ZEALAND                19

Introduced from North America and now common over most of New Zealand, except bottom of South Island. 25 cm. Found in open country with patches of low scrub, riverbeds flanked by willows and gorse.