Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
W. J. Francis
1963
California Quail
Nov. 2. Hunter Liggett Military Reservation,
Marin County. Quail season
opens to-day! Checked bags at
Permit Station as hunters checked in:
Total of sexed and aged birds today
as follows:
Adult ♂ - 84
Adult ♀ - 53
Imm ♂ - 226
Imm ♀ - 211
Total - 574.
175 additional birds were skinned
before checking, a reported as taken,
with no sex and age.
Percent of Immatures: 76.0
Imm. / Adult : 3.19
½ (Imm/Adult ♂) : 2.60
Nov. 4. Strawberry Canyon, Alameda County.
0815 No birds in the trap in the
Behavior Lab. pen. Saw only 8
birds running along the edge of
the fence, all birds tending to
take cover from the storm.
Nov. 6. Strawberry Canyon, Alameda County.
0940 Quail in the 'Behavior Lab.' pen
all in a group along lower fences,
[illegible] when I entered the