Elegant Quail
Callipepla douglasii (Vigors, NA 1829)
| Species name | Recordist | Date | Location | Remarks | Cat.nr. |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii | Geoffrey A. Keller | 2000-04-27 | 12.0 km SE of Alamos, near Cuchujaqui River, Sonora, Mexico, Sonora (Mexico) | - | 109165 macaulaylibrary.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii bensoni | Richard E. Webster | 2018-07-27 | Nuri, Rosario de Tesopaco, Sonora, Sonora (Mexico) (500 m) | song - between Tesopaco del Rosario and Nuri; subspecies based on van Rossem; bird-seen:no playback-used:no
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447899 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii douglasii | Richard E. Webster | 2018-07-25 | Minas Nuevas, Álamos, Sonora, Sonora (Mexico) (400 m) | song - different from recorded earlier; advertising calls from 7 m up on a big, horizontal branch of a large tree in a pasture area; interval shortened at 2:14; flew down at end; another quail in the background; Microondas La Luna road; probably douglasii as subspecies, but this all seems murky, IOC list not detailed enough, birds around Alamos elegans of van Rossem, presumably now in the nominate, which is in southern Sonora per HBW; bird-seen:no playback-used:no
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447886 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii douglasii | Richard E. Webster | 2018-07-19 | Arroyo Uvalama, Álamos, Sonora, Sonora (Mexico) (400 m) | song - interval shortened at 2:00, 4:04, and 5:10; song = advertising call; bird-seen:no playback-used:no
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448067 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii douglasii | Barry Edmonston | 2025-04-13 | Álamos, Álamos Municipality, Sonora, Alamos (Mexico) (460 m) | song - Calls from single adult in twilight. Background calls from unidentified other birds.
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1000595 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii douglasii | Barry Edmonston | 2025-04-10 | Batopilas, Batopilas Municipality, Chihuahua, Batopilas (Mexico) (600 m) | call - Calls from adult with two juveniles. Moving in thick bushes about 2 to 3 meters above ground. Series of repeated calls in the first part of recording followed by single calls in later part (single calls are spaced about 4 to 8 seconds apart). Recording is from abandoned area of old hacienda where there are flowers and tall (4 meter high) bushes.
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1000357 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii | Rose Ann Rowlett | 2019-07-20 | MX-Sonora--Rio Mayo near Tesia (N of Navojoa), Sonora, Mexico, Navojoa (Mexico) | - Two cuts of calls of the same pair of Elegant Quail in the riparian of the Rio Mayo floodplain near Tesia. Duetting at ca. 2'50" in second cut. With Yellow-breasted Chat, N. Cardinal, White-winged Doves, cattle, distant dog, Streak-backed Oriole, Happy Wren, Sinaloa Wren, Curve-billed Thrasher calls. | 183913921 macaulaylibrary.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii douglasii | Isain Contreras Rodríguez | 2019-08-26 | Privanzas Los Mochis Ahome, Sinaloa, Sinaloa (Mexico) (10 m) | call, male - Smarthphone MotoG5 plus y App RecForge ll bird-seen:yes playback-used:no
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494371 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii | Ryan O'Donnell | 2021-06-14 | Incidental ELQU 14Jun2021, Tecuala, Nayarit, Mexico, Tecuala (Mexico) | - Same individual photographed. | 353255231 macaulaylibrary.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii douglasii | Richard E. Webster | 2018-07-25 | Minas Nuevas, Álamos, Sonora, Sonora (Mexico) (400 m) | song - Microondas La Luna road; playback-used:no
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447879 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii bensoni | Richard E. Webster | 2019-07-23 | Arroyo La Aduana, Álamos, Sonora, Sonora (Mexico) (500 m) | adult, call, excited song, male - 15 m up in a big fig tree, walking along large side limbs, mostly advertising calls, but two excited outburst songs after 2:15 and 6:35 (good, clean ones); bird-seen:yes playback-used:no
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504304 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii | Peter Boesman | 2002-04-02 | San Blas area, Nayarit, Nayarit (Mexico) (0 - 50 m) | song - ID certainty 100%. (Archiv. tape 145 side B track 4 seq. C)
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220064 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii | Peter Boesman | 2002-04-06 | Cerro de San Juan, Nayarit, Nayarit (Mexico) (1000 - 1500 m) | song - ID certainty 100%. (Archiv. tape 147 side A track 30 seq. A)
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220061 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii | Geoffrey A. Keller | 2000-04-27 | 12.0 km SE of Alamos, near Cuchujaqui River, Sonora, Mexico, Sonora (Mexico) | - | 109166 macaulaylibrary.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii | Miguel Aguilar @birdnomad | 2026-04-06 | , San Blas (incl. Islas Tres Marias) (Mexico) | - | 654686250 macaulaylibrary.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii douglasii | Richard E. Webster | 2018-07-19 | Parque La Colorada, Álamos, Sonora, Sonora (Mexico) (400 m) | song - calling inside a thicket; not seen; bird-seen:no playback-used:no
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448065 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii bensoni | Richard E. Webster | 2019-07-20 | Tesia, Rio Mayo, Sonora, Sonora (Mexico) (50 m) | adult, call, male, sex uncertain, song - excited vocalizations, perhaps from two birds; excited calls after 0:42 are not ones I know as the quail, but seem extensions of shorter calls given earlier??; interval shortened at 0:50 for more excited series; interval shortened again at 1:24, with an excited call, then a long series of advertising calls, with another excited series after 6:37 at the end, countersinging to one behind me; bird-seen:yes playback-used:no
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504302 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii | Peter Boesman | 2002-04-06 | Cerro de San Juan, Nayarit, Nayarit (Mexico) (1000 - 1500 m) | song - ID certainty 100%. (Archiv. tape 147 side A track 29 seq. A)
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220060 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii | Peter Boesman | 2002-04-02 | San Blas area, Nayarit, Nayarit (Mexico) (0 - 50 m) | song - ID certainty 100%. (Archiv. tape 145 side B track 4 seq. B)
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220063 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii douglasii | Richard E. Webster | 2018-05-11 | Rancho Santa Barbara, Sonora, Sonora (Mexico) (1200 m) | song - song = advertising call; isolated bird in ranch yard habitat in disturbed mountain basin, a higher elevation than typical; bird-seen:yes playback-used:no
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448074 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii | Andrew Spencer | 2015-06-01 | Panuco road, Sinaloa, Mexico, Concordia (Mexico) | - songs and calls from a male bird perched on a rock along the side of the road, in response to playback. Habitat was dense thorn forest on a steep slope. | 49143711 macaulaylibrary.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii | Peter Boesman | 2002-04-02 | San Blas area, Nayarit, Nayarit (Mexico) (0 - 50 m) | song - ID certainty 100%. (Archiv. tape 145 side B track 5 seq. B)
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220066 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii | Peter Boesman | 2002-04-02 | San Blas area, Nayarit, Nayarit (Mexico) (0 - 50 m) | song - ID certainty 100%. (Archiv. tape 145 side B track 4 seq. A)
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220062 xeno-canto.org |
| Elegant Quail - Callipepla douglasii | Isain Contreras Rodríguez | 2019-09-09 | Privanzas Los Mochis Ahome, Sinaloa, Sinaloa (Mexico) (10 m) | call - Moto g5Plus con app Recforge II bird-seen:yes playback-used:no
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498154 xeno-canto.org |
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