California quail
Scientific name: Callipepla californica (Shaw, 1798)
Overview
The California quail, also known as the California valley quail or Valley quail, is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family, inhabiting western North America. It is the state bird of California.
From the Wikipedia article “California quail”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Least concern on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021.3.
Where it lives
The Catalogue of Life records it in: Middle America; North America; Oceania.
Common names
Also known in English as Californian Quail.
Names in other languages (8)
- Chinese
- 珠頸翎鶉
- French
- Colin de Californie
- German
- Schopfwachtel
- Japanese
- カンムリウズラ
- Persian
- بلدرچین کالیفرنیایی
- Portuguese
- codorniz-da-califórnia
- Russian
- Калифорнийский хохлатый перепел
- Spanish
- Codorniz californiana, Codorniz de California, Colín de California
Related animals
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names and range.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q830385, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “California quail”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — Becky Matsubara from El Sobrante, California, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
- Range map — Olga007, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026