Blue Grey With Scaled Pattern Scaled Quail
A variety of the Scaled Quail
Quail · Speckled cream eggs · Ornamental
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About the Blue Grey With Scaled Pattern Scaled Quail
The nominate plumage of the Scaled Quail: each blue-grey breast and mantle feather is edged in dark grey or black, so the bird appears clothed in overlapping scales like fish scales or chainmail, giving the species its name. Topping the head is the cottony white crest that earns it the nickname 'cottontop', while the overall bluish cast explains its other common name, 'blue quail'. This is the wild colouration of a hardy southwestern desert runner kept as an elegant ornamental aviary bird.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Speckled cream
- Eggs per year
- About 50
- Purpose
- Ornamental
- Sizes
- Standard
- Incubation
- 23 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- Mexico / Southwest USA
- Scientific name
- Callipepla squamata