Scaled Quail
Common
Name: Scaled Quail (SCQU)
Scientific
Name:
Callipepla squamata
Global/Continental
Conservation Status: Not
on IUCN 2004 Red List
National-level
Conservation Status: NOT covered by the
Migratory Bird Treaty Act (upland game bird)
Key
Reference(s):
BNA No. 106 (Schemnitz 1994)
Distribution:
Resident from ne and se Arizona, n New Mexico, e-c Colorado, and sw
Kansas south thru w Oklahoma and the w half of Texas, and the interior of
Mexico to ne Jalisco, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Hidalgo, and w Tamaulipas (AOU
1998)
Habitat
Associations:
Arid lowland scrub, arid montane scrub, northern temperate
grassland, second-growth scrub (AOU 1998)
Source(s)
of Research/monitoring Needs: New
Mexico PIF Bird Conservation Plan; Texas Avian Research Projects - TARP
(Texas Partners in Flight 2001); BNA No. 106 (Schemnitz 1994); 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)
- Additional
species monitoring in Chihuahuan Desert Grasslands, Plains/Mesa
Grasslands, and Great Basin Shrub in
New Mexico
for species including SCQU (
New Mexico
)
- Determine,
at the landscape spatial scale, why SCQU abundance has declined during
the last few decades (TARP - Rolling Red Plains;
Edwards
Plateau
;
Chihuahuan
Desert
; Mexican Mts; Rolling Red Plains)
- More
information on population dynamics in SCQU (BNA)
Habitat Needs/Ecology/Life History
- Determine
breeding habitat requirements for SCQU (BNA)
Effects of Management Practices
- Determine
effective management strategies to increase nest success and survival
of young SCQU (BNA)
- Effects
of land use practices (e.g. grazing, water improvements, &
conservation reserves) on SCQU (BNA)
Effects of Human Development/Disturbance
- Impacts
of hunting on SCQU populations (BNA)
Landscape
- See
needs under “Monitoring”
Species Interactions
- Compare
nesting success/ecology and brood survival of sympatric populations of
SCQU and Northern Bobwhites (TARP - Pecos & Staked Plains)
Demographics
- Effects
of climatic factors (e.g. rainfall and temperature) on reproductive
success (BNA)
- see
needs under "Effects of Management Practices"
Genetics/Taxonomy/Systematics
- Relationships
of SCQU to other quail species (using mtDNA, details of molts &
plumages) (BNA)
[Link
to References]
[Link
to PIF Bird Conservation Plans]
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