Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Galliformes > Odontophoridae > Callipepla > Callipepla gambeliiCallipepla gambelii (Gambel's Quail)Synonyms: Lophortyx gambelii; Lophortyx gambelii gambelii Language: Spanish 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. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.29473 EDGE Score: 1.83971 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 166 grams | | Birth Weight [3] | 9.5 grams |  | | Breeding Habitat [2] | Desert scrub, Desert riparian | | Wintering Geography [2] | Non-migrartory | | Wintering Habitat [2] | Desert scrub, Desert riparian | | | Diet [4] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [4] | 10 % | | Diet - Plants [4] | 50 % | | Diet - Seeds [4] | 40 % | | Forages - Ground [4] | 100 % | | | Female Maturity [5] | 1 year | | Male Maturity [5] | 1 year | | | Clutch Size [6] | 13 | | Clutches / Year [5] | 1 | | Global Population (2017 est.) [2] | 6,100,000 | | Incubation [5] | 22 days | | Mating System [3] | Monogamy | | Maximum Longevity [5] | 7 years | | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 10 inches (25 cm) |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Rio Colorado Biosphere Reserve |
VI |
2320468 |
Sonora, Mexico |
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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, CA |
III |
184543 |
California, United States |
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Aztec Ruins National Monument |
V |
321 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Bandelier National Monument |
V |
8107 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Beaver Creek Biosphere Reserve |
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275028 |
Arizona, United States |
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Big Bend Biosphere Reserve National Park |
II |
815561 |
Texas, United States |
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Big Morongo Canyon Preserve Area of Critical Environmental Concern |
V |
3906 |
California, United States |
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Canyonlands National Park |
II |
335430 |
Utah, United States |
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Capital Reef National Park |
II |
243722 |
Utah, United States |
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Casa Grande National Monument |
V |
468 |
Arizona, United States |
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Chiricahua National Monument |
V |
1421 |
Arizona, United States |
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Coachella Valley Preserve Nature Conservancy - Preserve |
Ia |
8106 |
California, United States |
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Colorado National Monument |
III |
20420 |
Colorado, United States |
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Coronado National Monument National Memorial |
III |
4360 |
Arizona, United States |
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Death Valley National Park |
II |
762125 |
California, Nevada, United States |
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Dos Palmas Preserve |
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California, United States |
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Fort Bowie National Historic Site |
III |
1004 |
Arizona, United States |
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Grand Canyon National Park |
II |
1210128 |
Arizona, United States |
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Great Basin National Park |
II |
77367 |
Nevada, United States |
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Jornada Biosphere Reserve |
Ib |
30913 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Joshua Tree National Park |
II |
305076 |
California, United States |
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Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park |
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Hawaii, United States |
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Lake Mead National Recreation Area |
V |
670229 |
Arizona, Nevada, United States |
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Mesa Verde National Park |
II |
40098 |
Colorado, United States |
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Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve |
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5901 |
California, United States |
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Navajo National Monument |
V |
604 |
Arizona, United States |
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Organ Pipe Cactus Biosphere Reserve |
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327376 |
Arizona, United States |
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Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center |
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6101 |
California, United States |
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Pipe Spring National Monument |
V |
41 |
Arizona, United States |
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Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site |
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Hawaii, United States |
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Saguaro National Park |
II |
11686 |
Arizona, United States |
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Sevilleta LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
IV |
228335 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Tonto National Monument |
V |
1123 |
Arizona, United States |
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White Sands National Monument |
III |
139922 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Zion National Park |
II |
135667 |
Utah, United States |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018. ♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 5de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 7del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 8How Important are Columnar Cacti as Sources of Water and Nutrients for Desert Consumers? A Review, B. O. Wolf and C. Martínez del Rio, Isotopes Environ. Health Stud., 2003, Vol. 39(1), pp. 53-67 ♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 10The Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl: Taxonomy, Distribution, and Natural History, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, W. Scott Richardson, Glenn A. Proudfoot, USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-43. 2000 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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