Eladio Fernandez / Blue-headed quail-dove (Starnoenas cyanocephala) profile, Cuba. Endangered species. Endemic.

Marie Read / California quail (Callipepla californica), male emerging from behind snowbank in winter, Mono Lake Basin, California, USA

Karine Aigner / Blue-headed quail-dove (Starnoenas cyanocephala) on ground, Cuba

Alan Murphy/ BIA / Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) female and male, Texas

Alan Murphy/ BIA / Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) male with chick, Arizona

Markus Varesvuo / Common quail (Coturnix coturnix) flying over field, Spain, May.

Donald M. Jones / Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) male calling, southern Nevada

Rick Bowers/ BIA / Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) male at left with female, Arizona

Alan Murphy / Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) female and male, Texas

Alan Murphy / Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) male, Arizona

Roger Powell / Male Common Quail (Coturnix coturnix) perched on a boulder surveying its display area Castro Verde, Portugal, April

Patricio Robles Gil / Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) adult perched atop a blooming cactus, El Pinacate/Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve, Sonora, Mexico