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Montezuma Quail

Cyrtonyx montezumae ORDER: GALLIFORMES FAMILY: ODONTOPHORIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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The strikingly marked Montezuma Quail is a bird of Mexican Mountains, reaching the United States only in southern Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas.

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Calls

  • Calls
    Recorded by Jerry E. Stillwell
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Calls a series of quavering metallic whistles and a descending whistle combined with a buzz.

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