California Quail Form Large Family Groups. A covey of California quail can include up to 100 males, females and young. Learn fascinating wild turkey bird facts you should know.

California quail nests, which are usually on the ground, can contain as many as 28 eggs, dull white to pale buff in color. These large clutches may be the result of females laying eggs in nests ...

On a partly cloudy afternoon, a California Quail stands on the edge of a downed tree in Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Park in San Juan Capistrano on Wednesday, March 20, 2019.

Found across the entire west coast, the California quail is thriving in both urban and rural areas. Here's how to identify and hunt them. Print Subscription-$35 for the Best Field & Stream Stories ...

As part of the research, Reyna and his team successfully transferred 250 wild California valley quail last spring from Idaho to Texas. They fitted many of the birds with radio trackers and located ...

Dungeness crab is one of California's oldest commercial fisheries and has been regulated since 1895. The banana slug was established as the state slug. In Santa Cruz, they are no strangers to ...

California quail are caught somewhere in the middle. The birds seem to do fine even in suburban areas if there are at least small slices of their native habitat left. But once that’s gone, so ...

SALT LAKE CITY — It’s not difficult to find California quail scurrying around Utah's urban areas. It’s a species that isn’t native to the state but has been a fixture in Utah for more than ...

The California quail became the official bird of San Francisco in July 2000. While natural disasters such as fire are not always predictable, they do significantly alter the balance of the ecosystem.

Quail and chukar hunting season opens Saturday throughout California, and the prognosis is for an excellent hunting season, thanks to a good carryover of birds from last year and a terrific hatch o… ...

California quail have been spotted near Bozeman and south of Havre, and in Wyoming near Cody and Lovell. But no sighting so far has been recorded near Billings.