Geographic range:
Neotropical: Endemic to NW Mexico - Pacific slope from S Sonora and
SW Chihuahua to Jalisco.
Physical characteristics: Adult
up to 23 cm tall. Male: straight crest of rusty color. Face, throat
whitish, streaked with black. Upperparts gray to blue -gray. Scapulars
and tertials rusty, spotted white. Throat and belly grayish,
spotted white. Bill, eye and feet, grayish black. Female more brown.
Food habits: Mostly vegetable matter,
fruit, seeds, green plants, also insects and small invertebrates.
Reproduction: Typical clutch has
4 - 11 whitish eggs spotted brown.
Behavior: Terrestrial, territorial.
In pairs or small groups.
Habitat: Arid to semihumid brush and scrub. |
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