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title: "Mountain Quail"
description: "Oreortyx pictus — Uccelli. The mountain quail (Oreortyx pictus) is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/mountain-quail
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mountain Quail

> Oreortyx pictus — Uccelli. The mountain quail (Oreortyx pictus) is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family.

- Scientific name: *Oreortyx pictus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `mountains` (Montagne)
- iNaturalist observations: 2277
- Wikidata: [Q594810](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q594810)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1399](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1399)

## Names

- en: Mountain Quail
- de: Bergwachtel
- es: Codorniz de montaña
- fr: Colin des montagnes
- nl: Bergkwartel
- pt: Colim-serrano
- pl: Przepiór ozdobny

## Countries with the most observations

US (1972), MX (25)

## Summary

The mountain quail (Oreortyx pictus) is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. This species is the only one in the genus Oreortyx, which is sometimes included in Callipepla. This is not appropriate, however, as the mountain quail's ancestors diverged from other New World quails earlier than the bobwhites, no later than 6 mya.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_quail

## Photo

![Mountain Quail](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mountain-quail/medium.jpg)

Photo: Kyle Nessen · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21195661

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/mountain-quail?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).