California Quail get their tuffs after their first fall molt into adult
plumage if I remember correctly. I think young birds have them when they
get their juvenile plumage.

Jeff Kozma
Yakima, WA


----- Original Message -----
From: "mike ullmann" <mike.ullmann at kingcountyjournal.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 3:43 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] California quail in north Seattle


> Wondering if anybody knows whether California quail lose their crests,
> or perhaps take a year or so to develop them.
> Two quail were across the street from our north Seattle home (Maple Leaf
> neighborhood, corner of 12th Avenue N.E. and N.E. 89th Street) at 6:30
> this morning, a first in our nearly seven years there. They seemed
> unconcerned by sidewalk traffic and were marked and sized like
> California quail, but without the crest. We've seen many California
> quail, but none crestless.
> Thanks,
> Mike Ullmann
> _______________________________________________
> Tweeters mailing list
> Tweeters at u.washington.edu
> http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters
>