California Quail

Subspecies (5)

• Callipepla californica achrustera

  central and southern Baja California (northwestern Mexico)

• Callipepla californica brunnescens

  far northern coastal California to southern Santa Cruz County (western USA); introduced Corsica, Kangaroo and King islands (off South Australia and Tasmania), Norfolk Island, New Zealand, Hawaii, Chile, and west-central Argentina

• Callipepla californica californica

  eastern Oregon (western USA) to northwestern Mexico

• Callipepla californica canfieldae

  Owens Valley of east-central California (western USA)

• Callipepla californica catalinensis

  Santa Catalina Island (off southern California) (southwestern USA)