[SBB] Chicks found last week

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Good morning SBBers....
 
I would like to thank all those who tried to help identify the chicks and  
eggs found last week at Ed Levin Park...
 
One of the people I contacted was David Suddjian and he sent my pictures of  
to Janet Linthicum of the Santa Cruz Pred. Bird Research Group.... 
 
I copied and pasted David's email back to me along with the link so you  can  
see great pictures of the chick....just awesome to find out what was  nesting 
in February...

Guess this means that a pair of Brown Cortinex Quail were out  there and 
nesting even if not successful in doing so.... I said were because I  am thinking 
something got to them for the chicks to be on their own?
 
I went back yesterday to check if I could see any chicks or eggs ....but  
they have mowed over the area......amazing!  Nothing was left....
 
Thanks again, David and the to all those who help me out with  this....
 
Good birding and my best regards,
Linda
 
 
Here are some comments from Janet Linthicum of the Santa Cruz Pred. Bird  
Research Group...
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Well the egg definitely could be coturnix. It looks like it was  never 
incubated, or came out whole from the deceased, but it sounds like there  were more 
than one of them. Fresh eggs often come out with yutz on them that  dries, and 
is soon polished off by the incubating birds. I don't know what ELSE  might 
have an egg like that though. I'm holding a frozen coturnix.  MMMmmmmm.  The 
feather patterns are very similar but with a few oddities.  This looks like the 
breast/flank. The bird I have here has very few "pointed"  feathers. The ones 
on the breast are definitely rounded. Those on the flank tend  to a point, but 
not as distinct as it appears in the photo unless it's just that  those 
feathers got wet or something. Certainly there is nothing like a portion  of the 
feather that protrudes way beyond the main, as it appears there is here  on some 
of the feathers on the top right. Also, the downy white downy feathers  don't 
match. Like I mentioned, they can be variable depending on what breeding  
stock someone is using, but this one here has no white at all, and I don't  
remember white as being part of the ensemble.

There's a good picture of  coturnix quail at 
_http://www.lakecumberlandgamebirds.com/jumbo_brown_coturnix.htm_ 
(http://www.lakecumberlandgamebirds.com/jumbo_brown_coturnix.htm) 

(google  knows all!)

and eggs at _http://ag.ansc.purdue.edu/poultry/images/quailegg.gif_ 
(http://ag.ansc.purdue.edu/poultry/images/quailegg.gif) 

At  10:48 PM 2/26/2005 -0500, you wrote:

this one has a photo  of the egg. I appreciate your help. It is somewhat of a 
conundrum as to what  might be nesting on the ground in the eastern foothills 
of Santa Clara Co. in  February...--DS 
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Howdy David....

I  don't know if you read my post about finding chicks today...if not it's on 
 SBB....here's the problem...I can't find this egg in my books anywhere can I 
 send a picture to you and hopefully you can identify it for me...
Would  love to hear from you....

Thanks David....
Linda  Sullivan



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