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	California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		California was poorly settled until modern public health eliminated the endemic outbreaks of yellow fever, malaria and plague, caused from the area’s lack of frosts, which kills mosquitoes and fleas.
		California's vast terrain is connected by an extensive system of freeways, expressways, and highways, all maintained by Caltrans and patrolled by the California Highway Patrol, except for the numbered expressways in Santa Clara County which were built and maintained by the county itself.
		California is governed as a republic, with three branches of government: the executive branch consisting of the Governor of California and the other independently elected constitutional officers; the legislative branch consisting of the Assembly and Senate; and the judicial branch consisting of the Supreme Court of California and lower courts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/California (6959 words)

	California Quail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The California Quail, Callipepla californica, is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family.
		The California Quail is a highly sociable bird and one of the daily communal activities is the taking of dust baths.
		A family of quail will select an area where the ground has been newly turned or is soft, and using their underbellies, will burrow downward into the soil some 1-2 inches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/California_Quail (402 words)

	Quail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds in the pheasant family Phasianidae, or in the family Odontophoridae.
		The New World quails are not closely related, but are named for their similar appearance and behaviour.
		They are seed eaters, but will also take insects and similar small prey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quail (128 words)

	NatureWorks - California Quail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The California quail is a small, plump bird with a short fl beak.
		The California quail lives in grasslands, foothills, woodlands, canyons and at the edge of deserts.
		The California quail lives in coveys of 10 to 200 birds in the winter.
	www.nhptv.org /natureworks/californiaquail.htm (292 words)

	California Quail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		California quail are endearing birds who seem not to know where they are as they cluck "Chicago, Chicago" while wandering amidst shrub lands of California valleys.
		California quail make scrape nests on the ground or platform nests in a fork of a tree or thicket about 10 feet high.
		California quail live in four main habitats: open forest with space between trees; mountains and wooded canyons; scrub vegetation with thorns; and bushes, shrubs, and thickets (small trees closely packed).
	www.sherrysknowledgequest.com /quail.htm (514 words)

	The Present and Future Status of the California Valley Quail
		Three different species of quail are found within the confines of the State of California, the mountain quail (Oreortyx picta), the California valley quail (Lophortyx californica), and the Gambel or desert quail (Lophortyx gambeli).
		Having now pointed out the fact that quail have greatly decreased in numbers in some parts of the state and have apparently increased in numbers in other parts, let.us pass on to a discussion of the factors governing the increase and decrease of birds in general and of quail in particular.
		A study of the laws of nature governing the numbers of quail shows that this bird might be able to withstand a small amount of destruction during the winter open season without danger of impairing the average numbers from year to year.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Condor/files/issues/v014n04/p0131-p0142.html (10090 words)

	Game Bird Program - California Quail
		California Quail (Callipepla californica) are mostly distributed in California, Oregon, and Washington.
		In Oregon, California Quail were native to the southwestern Oregon, but have been transplanted to many other counties throughout the state.
		California Quail are associated with early-successional shrubby habitats.
	fw.oregonstate.edu /gamebird/html/california.htm (139 words)

	California Quail Hunting - Jesse's Hunting & Outdoors (JHO)
		California resident and nonresident hunting licenses are nonrefundable and nontransferable.
		Both the California quail and the mountain quail are found from one end of the state to the other, whereas Gambel's quail is found only in the southeast comer of the state.
		Quail Point is a 1,700 acre licensed hunting preserve located 3 miles west of I-5 and 1/2 mile west of I-505 on Road 14 in the rolling foothills west of Zamora.
	www.jesseshunting.com /calquail.html (14587 words)

	California Quail
		The California quail is sometimes called the California partridge, Catalina quail, or valley quail.
		The California quail is a small (9½ -11 inches long), plump chicken like bird with a short fl plume sprouting forward from the top of its head.
		California quails are gray with a dark brown head.
	www.dovehunt.com /quail/california_quail.htm (188 words)

	California Quail
		California Quail are year-round residents of the Pacific coast, from Washington state to Baja California.
		California Quail are closely related to Gambel’s Quail, which resides in arid areas of southern California, the southwestern United States, and northern Mexico.
		California Quail and Gambel’s Quail closely resemble each other, but the latter’s crown and flanks are brighter and more rufous than the former’s.
	www.birds.cornell.edu /BOW/calqua (635 words)

	Animal Tracks - California Valley Quail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Quail spend most of their time foraging on the ground, therefore their tracks are found in a line, one after the other.
		Both male and female have a teardrop-shaped tuft of dark feathers on top of the head, although the female is not as boldly colored as the male.
		When the young quail are hatched, they follow their parents around in a little group.
	www.bear-tracker.com /quail.html (262 words)

	The California Quail likes seeds on the ground.
		The California Quail eat mainly seeds which it picks and scratches from the ground much as a chicken.
		Feral and house Cats are devastating to quail populations.
		The California Quail is not found in the desert or high elevations of the Sierras.
	www.laspilitas.com /California_birds/Quail/California_Quail_in_your_garden.htm (290 words)

	California Primed For Banner Quail Season
		Habitat conditions throughout the state have left populations of valley, Gambel's and mountain quail in excellent condition for the 2005 hunting season.
		He's the author of the DFG-published Guide to Hunting Quail in California, which is updated every couple of years and serves as an excellent reference for locating public-land quail-hunting opportunities in the state.
		Although annual quail population surveys had yet to be completed as this issue went to press, the amount and timing of the rains in most areas of the state appear to have been nearly perfect to produce bumper crops of feathered buzz bombs.
	www.californiagameandfish.com /hunting/upland-birds-hunting/CA_1005_02 (787 words)

	California Quail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Found throughout the state, (all of California is his year-round range) this charming bird is noted for its hardiness and adaptability.
		Also known as the Valley Quail, he is found in a wide range of habitat zones, preferring mixed woodlands, chaparral and grassy valleys.
		A group of young quail seen running around aimlessly should not be disturbed unless one is certain that the mother is dead.
	kaweahoaks.com /html/calif_quail.html (413 words)

	Walnut Creek Open Space Foundation
		Plants such as Quail bush (Atriplex), coyote bush, toyon, elderberry, ceanothus, wild rose and others were selected for their food value and appropriateness to the area.
		Quail bush in particular has been successful; most plants survived and began producing seed the first year.
		Outside the fence we have established a chain of brush piles to encourage quail to use the area all the way over to the Twin Ponds in the next drainage.
	www.wcosf.org /activities/quail_habitat.shtml (516 words)

	SDNHM Focus on Gambel's Quail
		For many years, I have been deeply skeptical of any reports of Gambel's Quail in San Diego County from outside the floor of the Borrego Valley, the area from which the species was first reported in the county in 1928 and the only area from it has been documented with a specimen.
		The forehead of a male California Quail is mostly whitish (with some fl shaft streaks) to the whitish band behind the forehead, if any, hardly contrasts.
		On the Gambel's quail, however, the forehead is mostly fl, so the white band on the crown stands out in bold contrast between two fl zones.
	www.sdnhm.org /research/birdatlas/focus/gambel.html (198 words)

	A Quail Quandary / Birds' fans are trying to save the city's falling population
		Once plentiful California quail are disappearing from San Francisco, victims of habitat destruction and feral cats -- and the local chapter of the National Audubon Society is rallying to save the last remnant populations.
		California's state bird, California quail are plump and chicken-like, with beautiful pearl gray, pale gold and chestnut plumage.
		Mahoney said quail are holding their own in the arboretum because few cats roam there.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/07/08/MN103530.DTL (1013 words)

	California State Bird - California Quail at SongbirdGarden.com!
		The California quail (Callipepla californica), also known as the valley quail or Lophortyx californica vallicola (Name used by Dickey), became the official state bird in 1931.
		Plump, gray-colored and smaller than a pigeon, the California quail sports a downward curving fl plume on top of its head and fl bib with white stripe under the beak.
		They nest in hollows scratched in the ground and concealed by foliage, and their eggs, 6 to 28 in number, are creamy white and thickly spotted with golden brown.
	www.songbirdgarden.com /store/info/infoview.asp?documentid=17 (139 words)

	California Quail T HIS QUAIL seems to love people
		California quail have a fl plume atop a bold head pattern outlined in white, with a gray breast, striped russet sides, and a scaled belly.
		As with Gambel's and mountain quail, the male helps with the young, and should the female disappear, he will incubate the eggs.
		California quail inhabit lands from Baja through Washington and inland to Idaho and Nevada.
	www.hunting101.com /smallgame/northamerica/quail/CaliforniaQuail.htm (750 words)

	California State Bird California Valley Quail Lophortyx californica
		By an act of the Legislature, the California valley quail was approved as the official bird of the State of California on June 12, 1931.
		The California valley quail (Lophortyx californica) is the official bird and avifaunal emblem of the State.
		California is a great place for wild birds and the people who enjoy watching them.
	www.netstate.com /states/symb/birds/ca_valley_quail.htm (290 words)

	Birding Column: California-Quail Close Encounter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jose Cardero, an artist on that expedition, painted a lifelike rendition of the California quail, along with paintings of the California thrasher, the northern flicker, the red-winged flbird, and many other species of plants and animals, during that expedition's stay in Monterey and other parts of the California coast.
		The California quail has flourished in the far Western U.S. and Baja California for the last 200 years, and it's a pleasure to be able to see him every day in my yard.
		The taxonomic classification of California quail is unclear; some authorities classify them and some other quail species in their own family (Odontophoridae), others continue to classify them as subspecies in the Phasianidae family.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/01/0106_040106_birdmanquail.html (1216 words)

	California Quail - Birding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Like all quails it is short and chubby, with a feather sticking up out of their head.
		Quails are flock birds and eat insects and seeds.
		Quails are game birds and the California Quail was once a big industry for professional hunters.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art9295.asp (136 words)

	California Quail Printout- EnchantedLearning.com
		The California Quail (Callipepla californica, also known as the valley quail) is a common bird from the western USA.
		Quails congregate in groups of 10 to 20 birds, called coveys.
		Nest and Eggs: The California Quail's nest is a simple scrape in the ground, lined with grass and leaves.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/birds/printouts/Quailprintout.shtml (222 words)

	WebQU: Upland Game Birds
		The California quail, the state bird of California, is also known as valley quail.
		The Gambel's quail is sometimes called desert quail due to its preferred habitat.
		The mountain quail is the largest of North American quails.
	www.qu.org /main/upland/uplandgamebirds.cfm (612 words)

	Allrecipes \| Cook's Encyclopedia \| quail
		American quail are known by various names depending on the region-bobwhite in the East, partridge in the South, quail in the North and blue quail in the Southwest.
		American quail nest on the ground and are not migratory-in fact, they'd rather walk than fly.
		The meat of the American quail is white and delicately flavored.
	allrecipes.com /advice/ref/ency/terms/8109.asp (203 words)

	California State Symbols, Emblems, California State Flag, State Bird State Seal, State Animal, State Flower, State ...
		California Grizzly Bear (Ursus californicus) Bear in Mind: The California Grizzly at The Bancroft Library
		California Redwood (Coast Redwood: Sequoia sempervirens) and (Giant Sequoia: Sequoia gigantea).
		Though adopted, by the California legislature as Sequoia gigantea, the Giant Sequoia was more correctly identified as Sequoiadendron giganteum by John T. Buchholz in 1939.
	www.netstate.com /states/symb/ca_symb.htm (224 words)

	California Quail: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		California Quail: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species....
		This is the state bird of California California quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/california_quail.htm (414 words)

	California Quail - Callipepla californica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The average weight of a California Quail is between 150.6 g to 189.5 g (5 - 7 oz.).
		An adult California Quail grows to be 25 cm (9.8 in) in length.
		An immature California Quail has a general coloration of mostly greys and browns which gives it a cryptic look.
	www.birdforum.net /bird_view.php?bid=1831 (252 words)

	Amazon.com: The California Quail: Books: A. Starker Leopold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The California Quail is the definitive work on this beautiful bird.
		Of all the birds native to the state of California, none is more universally enjoyed and appreciated than the California Quail.
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	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520054563?v=glance (655 words)

	California Quail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The California quail, also known as the valley quail, became the official state bird in 1931.
		Plump, gray-colored and smaller than a pigeon, the California quail has a downward-curving fl plume on top of its head and a fl bib with a white stripe under its beak.
		They are known for their hardiness and adaptability.
	www.ss.ca.gov /museum/quail.htm (55 words)

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