Breeding Location:
Scrub vegetation areas
Breeding Type:
Monogamous
Breeding Population:
Declining, Common locally
Egg Color:
Cream
Number of Eggs:
14 - 16
Incubation Days:
23
Egg Incubator:
Female
Nest Material:
Weeds, grasses, dead vegetation
Migration:
Nonmigratory
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Overview
Northern Bobwhite: Medium, morphologically variable quail, most with unique head pattern of white face and throat, dark eyestripe, rufous-brown (eastern and Great Plains) or black (Florida) center stripe on top of head. Body shows a mottled combination of black, brown, rufous-brown, and gray.
Range and Habitat
Northern Bobwhite: Found in a variety of early successional brushy, forested, and agricultural habitats throughout much of the eastern U.S.
Breeding and Nesting
Northern Bobwhite: Monogamous and solitary. Both sexes build scape nest of grasses, weeds, dead vegetation. Female usually incubates fourteen to sixteen cream eggs alone for 23 days, males have been documented incubating occasionally. Precocial, downy young are able to walk and find insect food almost immediately upon hatching. Family groups may stay together through late winter.
Foraging and Feeding
Northern Bobwhite: Feeds on a variety of seeds, by ground foraging, occasionally consumes green vegetation and insects. Seed diet extremely diverse, includes wheat, corn, soybeans, legumes, pine and oak mast, and grasses.
Readily Eats
Cracked Corn
Vocalization
Northern Bobwhite: Song a clear, whistled "bob WHITE" or "pup WAAAYK." Several different call notes include soft "hoy", moderate "hoy-poo", and loud "koi-lee." Alarm call a harsh "quaee." Some geographic variation in vocalizations.
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