KEGambel's Quail

Kat Enoch

Gambel's Quail

RangeSonoran desert of Arizona and Mexico, but it extends into southern New Mexico up and down the Rio Grande, up the Colorado drainage into Utah's canyon coutry , and west to California and southern Nevada.

Curious FactsHumans are the Gambel's Quail's biggest predators. The average estimated kill between 1993 and 1995 exceeded 1.2 million.

Habitat Brushy and thorny vegatation of southwestern deserts.

DescriptionGrambel's Quail are a pear shaped birds with short legs and roundish wings and are gray with a white steaked russet sides.