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BobwhiteRelated Category: Vertebrate Zoology common name for an American henlike bird of the family Phasianidae, which also includes the pheasant and the partridge. The eastern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) is about 10 in. (25 cm) long.
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Bobwhite American hen like bird of the same family as the pheasant and the Partridge. The Eastern bobwhite is about 10 in. long.
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BobwhiteThe bobwhite is classified as Colinus virginianus, family Phasianidae (which includes the PHEASANTS and PARTRIDGES), order Galliformes [Total Votes: 272, Hits: 747] Updated On: 10/9/2007Print ...
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The Bobwhite Quail is a popular and economically important gamebird, particularly in the southern United States. It is the official game bird of the U.S. states of Tennessee, Georgia, and Washington.
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Bobwhites build nests on the ground, often at the base of a clump of broomsedge, using the dead grass blades to construct the nest. Nests average 14 eggs, which hatch after 24 days of incubation. Most nests hatch in mid to late June and into July.
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Bobwhites are monogamous. They lay 12-16 eggs, but sometimes 7-28, in a shallow depression lined with grass, hidden by a woven arch of vegetation, with a small side entrance.
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Bobwhites nest on Assateague and are abundant year-round. Northern Bobwhite Call (.wav format) (Sound source: Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, United States Department of the Interior) Male and female bobwhites ...
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Bobwhites are ground birds. Though they can fly, they only take to the air to flee danger. They even nest on the ground, by scratching a depression among tall grasses and lining it with dead plant matter.
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Crested Bobwhite (Colinus cristatus) The Crested Bobwhite is a member of the New World Quail family and is found from Panama to the Guianas, in Colombia, Venezuela and the north of Brazil.
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Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus The Northern Bobwhite is named for its well-known "bob-white" call given by males in mating season. Spends most of its time on the ground gathered in family groups or "coveys" of one to two dozen birds.
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The Northern Bobwhite is named after its familiar bob-white call. They are the only quail native to the eastern United States.
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01/19/98 NAME - Black-throated Bobwhite FAMILY - Odontophoridae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Colinus nigrogularis SYNONYMS - Ortyx nigrogularis- Gould 1843 REFERENCES - 27, 1 and 18 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, ...
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Bobwhites & quail eat mainly vegetation including all sorts of seeds, shoots, berries, and a small amount of insects. Picture Quail ...
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Bobwhite Quail Colinus virginianus Rails, Crakes, Swamphens, Coots Weka Gallirallus australis Banded Rail Rallus philippensis (Moho-pereru) ...
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Northern Bobwhite Colinus viryinianus (Linnaeus) Fifty pairs were imported from southern Ontario in 1950 by the Kings County Fish and Game Association.
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The Northern Bobwhite uses brushy habitat, such as abandoned fields. Variability in the habitat is also preferred for this species, using pine, hedgerows and shrub habitat during different parts of its life cycle.
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The Northern Bobwhite, or Quail, is usually not found in heavily developed areas. It is a ground nester and needs the heavy cover of tall grasses, brambles, dense hedges, or brush piles. It will forage for seeds under feeders.
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The Bobwhite Colinus virginianus of North America exists in about 20 races from southern Canada to Guatemala. Its name is suggestive of its call.
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Prey items range from birds as large as Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) to insects captured in the air (Farquhar 1992). DISTRIBUTION.
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Their food is almost exclusively plant material, but there is some evidence that they feed also on the eggs of ground-nesting birds such as bobwhite and meadow lark.
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A relative of the Bobwhite, this petite ground bird is clad in light blue and gray and prefers to run rather than fly from danger. And yet, it becomes conspicuous around ranches, when not disturbed.
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WELCOME PARTRIDGE. [Crested Bobwhite.] ORTIX NEOXENUS, Vigors. [Colinus cristatus.] ...
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Both types of seed packets are primarily selected to provide food and/or cover for bobwhite quail, but many other species of wildlife will benefit also.
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(1999) Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus. Pp. 1-28 in Poole, A. and Gill, F., eds. The birds of North America, No. 397. Philadephia and Washington, DC: The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia and the American Ornithologists' Union.
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Animals in pocosins include lots of species of reptiles, amphibians and rodents as well as black bears, bobcats, bats, white-tailed deer, opossums, raccoons, river otters, mink, muskrats, northern bobwhites, and American woodcocks.
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Family: Odontophoridae - The New World Quail. 31 species world-wdie, 6 in the U.S., including California, Gambel's, Mountain, Scaled and Montezuma Quails, plus the Northern Bobwhite. The Montezuma Quail is the hardest to find.
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Including geographic varieties, this species is the most widely distributed native conifer in both North America and the world. Juniper "berries" are food for wildlife, especially grouse, pheasants, and bobwhites.
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 See also: Quail, Northern Bobwhite, Pheasant, Turkey, Grouse
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