Hunting & Fishing Field Guide

Habitat is the Key to California Quail

If there’s anything easy about hunting California quail, it is finding quail habitat. Where the four essential elements of habitat are found – water, food, space, and cover – the chances of locating birds increase substantially. The birds must have water. If there is one reliable water source at hand the chances of finding the birds increase. When water is abundant in an area, birds may be dispersed and harder to find.