Bobwhite Quail

Description:

These guys where in a wire coop at the Ralph Mitchell Zoo, and there where about ten of them in there, this is a male. They where super adorable, running alongside the coop with me and cheeping happily. They're also known as the virginia bobwhite and the northern bobwhite. Edit: Added a picture of a female.

Habitat:

The northern bobwhite can be found year-round in agricultural fields, grassland, open woodland areas, roadsides and wood edges. Its range covers the southeastern quadrant of the United States from the Great Lakes and southern Minnesota east to Pennsylvania and southern Massachusetts, and extending west to southern Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and all but westernmost Texas. It is absent from the southern tip of Florida and the highest elevations of the Appalachian Mountains, but occurs in eastern Mexico and in Cuba. Isolated populations have been introduced in Oregon and Washington. The northern bobwhite has also been introduced to New Zealand.