Utah Bird Profile
Scaled Quail - Callipepla squamata

Name Roots: (Gr. kallos, "a beauty";peplos, "a robe" - L. squamatus, "scaled")

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Nesting,
feeding,
characteristic behaviors:
Nests on the ground in a scrape nest. This species is not a cowbird host. This species is a granivore: ground gleaner; omnivore: ground forager.
  
Habitat: Breeds in Utah in high desert scrub and low desert scrub habitats.

by Margaret T. Sanchez

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Occur. (OT#)

  Only one documented sighting for Utah

(See Legend)

  
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(Updated Jun 2007)

 

  

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