Grey And Brown With Black Plume California Quail
A variety of the California Quail
Quail · Speckled cream eggs · Ornamental
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About the Grey And Brown With Black Plume California Quail
The classic wild-type California Quail: soft blue-grey breast and brown back, chestnut-and-white streaked flanks, and a belly so heavily dark-edged it looks neatly scaled. The cock wears the species' signature forward-curling black teardrop topknot (actually six overlapping feathers, longer than the hen's) above a black face outlined in white. This is the only plumage in which the breed is normally kept, showing off the dapper, scaled, plumed look that makes it a popular ornamental aviary quail.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Speckled cream
- Eggs per year
- About 60
- Purpose
- Ornamental
- Sizes
- Standard
- Incubation
- 22 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- United States
- Scientific name
- Callipepla californica