Male California Quail Callipepla californica, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California
Date 2007
Author Brocken Inaglory https://sites.google.com/site/thebrockeninglory/
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_Quail_mail_in_Golden_Gate_Park.JPG

The California valley quail or California quail or valley quail (Callipepla californica) is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. These quails have a curving crest or plume, made of six feathers, that droops forward: black in males and brown in females; the flanks are brown with white streaks.