Callipepla
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Callipepla
| image = Callipepla californica.jpg
| image_caption = Callipepla californica
| taxon = Callipepla
| authority = Wagler, 1832
| type_species = Callipepla strenua{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=10 |title= Odontophoridae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-08-05}}
| type_species_authority = Wagler, 1832
| synonyms = Lophortyx Bonaparte, 1838{{ITIS |id=175871 |taxon=Callipepla |access-date=2010-09-28}}
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = Callipepla californica
}}
Callipepla is a genus of birds in the New World quail family, Odontophoridae. They are sometimes referred to as crested quails.
Species
{{Species table |genus= Callipepla |authority-name= Wagler |authority-year=1832 |species-count=four|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
{{Species table/row
|name= California quail|binomial=Callipepla californica
|image=File:069 - CALIFORNIA QUAIL canet rd, sloco, ca (8718696139).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male
|image2 =File:California Quail (f) (40059471280).jpg|image2-caption=Female
|authority-name=Shaw|authority-year=1798 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Southwestern United States to the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, Canada
|range-image=File:C. californica distribution.JPG
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|iucn-status= LC
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Seven subspecies |bullets=on
| C. c. californica (Shaw, 1798)
| C. c. achrustera (Peters, 1923)
| C. c. brunnescens (Ridgway, 1884)
| C. c. canfieldae (Van Rossem, 1939)
| C. c. catalinensis (Grinnell, 1906)
| C. c. orecta (Oberholser, 1932)
| C. c. plumbea (Grinnell, 1926)
}}
}}
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|name=Elegant quail |binomial=Callipepla douglasii
|image=File:Callipepla douglasii 75772806.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male
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|authority-name=Vigors|authority-year=1829 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Sonora and southwestern Chihuahua to northern Jalisco, Mexico
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|name= Gambel's quail|binomial=Callipepla gambelii
|image=File:Callipepla californica 1.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male
|image2 =File:Callipepla gambelii female.jpg|image2-caption=Female
|authority-name=Gambel|authority-year=1843 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and Sonora; also New Mexico-border Chihuahua and the Colorado River region of Baja California.
|range-image=File:Callipepla gambelii map.svg
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|C. g. fulvipectus (Nelson, 1899)
|C. g. gambelii (Gambel, 1843)
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}}
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|name=Scaled quail |binomial=Callipepla squamata
|image=File:068 - SCALED QUAIL (5-10-2015) las cienegas nca, pima co, az -17 (16935159393).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male
|image2 =File:068 - SCALED QUAIL (1-15-09) falcon lake st park, tx (8719265562).jpg|image2-caption=Female
|authority-name=Vigors|authority-year= 1830|authority-not-original=yes
|range= South-central Arizona, northern New Mexico, east-central Colorado, and southwestern Kansas south through western Oklahoma and western and central Texas into Mexico to northeastern Jalisco, Guanajuato, Queretaru, Hidalgo, and western Tamaulipas
|range-image=File:Callipepla squamata map.svg
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Four subspecies |bullets=on
|C. s. squamata Vigors, 1830
|C. s. pallida Brewster, 1881
|C. s. hargravei Rea, 1973
|C. s. castanogastris Brewster, 1883
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References
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Category:Birds of North America
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