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Hey melody, look who stopped by today! Do you know what kind of bird this is? I have never seen one like this before. He has been on my porch all afternoon!
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I think he would good on a griffin. 🙂
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Are you sure? I live in the idaho panhandle, and is sure not dry or arid here.. and his crest is not white..hmm, i’ll have to keep looking.
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It makes sense that he is not from the area and was probably captive. He must be used to people if he has been hanging around your place. I see the scaled quails are from the southern states, but with all this bizarre weather I wouldn’t be surprised if he decided to take a trip north (if he was not captive)
Hey melody, look who stopped by today! Do you know what kind of bird this is? I have never seen one like this before. He has been on my porch all afternoon!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10200719317784082&l=3287412645705991641
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10200719343704730&l=4846712987653066235
I think he would good on a griffin. 🙂
Wow! That’s a scaled quail!
Found a video of a scaled quail calling, sounds exactly like your bird. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujP3iaXs4C0
Poor little fella! He looks like a Scaled Quail to me too. Somebody may have had an aviary damaged by a falling tree branch or the wind, and he escaped. If he got caught up in a wind he could have been carried quite some distance. He’s likely pretty hungry and would be grateful for some cracked corn, rolled oats, or even just birdseed. (Not instant rice, though, ever!) And a little dish of water.
Very pretty bird. I agree, his patterns would look very fine on a griffin. 🙂
OK, that makes sense to me. He showed up three days ago after a major windstorm. 25+ mph winds. Poor guy. He was really fluffed like that the whole time, he must be really cold because it was 25, and none of the song birds were like that.
Poor guy must be cold, it also explains why he isn’t scared of me or my cat. So are oats and birdseed OK to put out for him? If he hangs out for the rest of the winter, i can provide him food and fresh water. Maybe when spring come, he’ll be able to flutter home, and if he doesn’t leave, I am sure the veterinarians at my cats vet could find a local organization to help. They specialize in wild life and would know the proper way to handle and transport him home safely.
I think he is staying in the reeds down by the pipe of the flood drainage kinda pond behind my house It should be fine now, but when spring come it will flood. Makes me what to build him a hutch with some hay to keep warm. he was there all afternoon until it got colder again. any tips?
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I wish I were closer. I’d come over and catch him for you so he can get to where he needs to be. He probably won’t find his way home.Bird seed and grains should be enough to tide him over. If you want to really help him you can get a bag of game bird feed at your feed store, but it generally comes in large bags and he is only one little guy! If you want to you can also put mealworms out for him.
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My art: featherdust.comlol, so I went out on my patio with a recording of their call, and talked with him for an hour and a half. He is on my neighbors patio.
I put some oats and water out for him. I’ll try to get some feed for him from the Co-op. Do they fly very well? Just curious, He doesn’t seem to fly around very much, and he likes to stand like a flamingo. He doesn’t appear hurt at all, it think it just likes to stand like that, or it may be that the cement and metal railings are cold. He is now perching on the neighbors wooden cat stand.
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Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.comI haven’t seen scaled quail in the air, but our little Californias fly tolerably well; they just prefer not to get too high. I’m a little concerned that his being fluffed is a hint that he’s either not feeling well or is feeling the cold. He’ll want to stay under cover of some kind, by instinct: dogs, cats, and predators by air are big threats to quail. That said, he probably was raised in a coop with a run, so your porch looks nice and homey to him.
I do worry about the cold. He’ll probably want to perch at night and be out of drafts; in some cold areas birdkeepers build a “huddle box” up high for their birds. It’s basically a box closed on at least five sides with a perch inside: the open side faces away from the wind. Some huddles are even half-closed on the open side. By “up high” I’m thinking maybe 5 feet off the ground; I honestly don’t know how high quail like to perch, or if they prefer a hiding place on the ground. Either way, he’ll want to feel hidden and safe, but be able to fly out whenever he wants to.
Food-wise, game bird feed is much better than people food. Some feed stores will sell it in a smaller bag: they get a big bag in or a bulk lot, then parcel it out into little 5# bags for sale. Phone around, or maybe even try asking the animal shelter if they know who sells “chicken feed” (people usually know what that is, even if they don’t know what game bird feed is).
I’m glad he’s hanging around. Little guy is lucky to have an ally!
Oh, he is really pretty! I hope he makes it! 😀
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