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Mountain Quail

Oreortyx pictus

Classification

Class
Aves

The mountain quail (Oreortyx pictus) is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. This species is the only one in the genus Oreortyx, which is sometimes included in Callipepla. This is not appropriate, however, as the mountain quail's ancestors diverged from other New World quails earlier than the bobwhites, no later than 6 mya.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 36,481Mexico · 212