Mountain Quail
Common
Name: Mountain Quail (MOUQ)
Scientific
Name:
Oreortyx
pictus
Global/Continental
Conservation Status: Not
on IUCN 2004 Red List
National-level
Conservation Status:
NOT covered by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (game bird)
Key
Reference(s):
BNA No. 457 (Gutierrez and Delehanty 1999)
Distribution:
Resident from sw
British Columbia
(on Vancouver Island, where introduced), w and s
Washington
, and c
Idaho
south through the mountains of
California
and n and w
Nevada
to n
Baja California
(Sierra Juárez, Sierra San Pedro Mártir) (AOU 1998).
Habitat
Associations:
Brushy mountainsides, chaparral, pine-oak woodland, dense
second-growth, and in more arid areas, sagebrush, and pinyon-juniper
woodland (AOU 1998).
Source(s)
of Research/monitoring Needs: California Bird
Conservation Plan; Canadian Action Plan (Dunn 2002); BNA No. 457
(Gutierrez and Delehanty 1999); PIF Monitoring Needs document (Partners in
Flight Science Committee 2004)
PIF
Continental Plan Monitoring Needs Category: ** (Long-term population
trend monitoring considered adequate, but some issues (e.g., bias) may not
be accounted for)
RESEARCH/MONITORING NEEDS (source(s) of needs)
Monitoring
- Priority
monitoring action – NOTE: Breeding
Bird Survey (BBS) provides acceptable data at the continental level (PIF
Monitoring Needs doc)
- Second
priority monitoring action – Improve the BBS (PIF Monitoring Needs
doc)
- Third
priority monitoring action – Conduct new winter surveys (PIF
Monitoring Needs doc)
- Supplemental
MOUQ Surveys
- Determine MOUQ distribution (
California
); Population dynamics of MOUQ (including vital rates, dispersal,
basic life history traits) (BNA)
Habitat
Needs/Ecology/Life History
- General
Natural History/Ecology Information - More information on natural history of MOUQ, including breeding
and winter habitat requirements (California); Basic natural history of
MOUQ (estimate of home range size (both winter and summer), migratory
behavior, movement patterns) (BNA); Physiology & biomechanics
(compared to other quail to understand adaptations in MOUQ)
(BNA); Sociobiology of MOUQ (mating systems) (BNA)
Effects
of Management Practices
- Effects
of fire
- Effects of wildfire, grazing, and timber harvest on MOUQ (
California
); Role of fire in creating and maintaining vegetative communities
beneficial to MOUQ (BNA)
- Effects
of grazing and timber harvest on MOUQ (
California
)
Wintering
- see
needs under "Monitoring” and “Habitat Needs…”
Demographics
- See
needs under “Monitoring”
Genetics/Taxonomy/Systematics
- Systematics
& evolutionary biology of MOUQ (including information on
subspecific designations and range boundaries, and relations to other Odontophorine
quail (BNA)
[Link
to References]
[Link
to PIF Bird Conservation Plans]
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