What kind of bird

[digitS']

If it is especially tiny, I think we need @Phaedra over here to tell us about Coturnix. That quail comes in many color patterns but they are tiny, tiny.

Not so small - Cornell says that the "tan to orange" face of a Gray Partridge (Hungarian, Hun) is a distinguishing characteristic (LINK above). It may be too young to have that color. Don't know about those birds but I have seen them in Kootenai County in the past.

Steve

 

[digitS']

@Phaedra 's

 

[flowerbug]

Definitely a member of the quail family, either immature or female (or both maybe). Nice pictures! In that first shot I think I mistook grass stems as part of a longer beak which made me think woodcock, but clearly not in view of these new photos.

i was interrupted before i could post earlier about your guess and observation because i grabbed the picture and magnified it and concluded that it was a mistake on your part for the reason you stated.

I wonder if this is a wild bird or one that was raised in captivity.

my vote is captivity escapee or intentionally let go when the feed costs got to be too much.

pretty birdie. maybe it can be taught to sit?

 

[flowerbug]

so far my best guess is juvenile female california quail

https://s3.amazonaws.com/birdfellow-production/content/bird_photos/000/001/637/identification/California_Quail_-_04.jpg?1264518755

 

[SPedigrees]

@Phaedra 's

How pretty these all are!

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Definitely a member of the quail family, either immature or female (or both maybe). Nice pictures! In that first shot I think I mistook grass stems as part of a longer beak which made me think woodcock, but clearly not in view of these new photos.

I wonder if this is a wild bird or one that was raised in captivity.

I am wondering that too because so young it would not have traveled far and the rest of that family should be around here somewhere. I am not sure how long it takes to get to this size, but a few weeks ago I saw the other quail trying to round up their little bitty babies going all over the place. I can see how one could get lost. I had to keep my cat in the house until that bird finally went to bed. I have not seen this one get in a tree.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

How pretty these all are!

What are they?

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

i was interrupted before i could post earlier about your guess and observation because i grabbed the picture and magnified it and concluded that it was a mistake on your part for the reason you stated.




my vote is captivity escapee or intentionally let go when the feed costs got to be too much.

pretty birdie. maybe it can be taught to sit?

It makes the craziest noise and I thought it was coming from a tree, but it sits on the ground and does it.

 

[baymule]

I copied one of your pictures and saved it to my photos. Then I used the Apple ID on my phone to look it up.
Options were Coturnix and Gray Partridge. I copied Gray Partridge. I think Steve nailed it. What do you think? Go to YouTube and look up Gray Partridge calls or sounds. There may be a video of their sounds.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

There was a brief period where there were some Guinea Fowl in the woods near me (they released them because apparently Guinea Fowl love to eat deer ticks. I think the experiment only lasted a year (I think a mistaken local hunter shot one, or a car hit it, and the others all were re-captured and removed when they didn't make enough of a dent in the Lyme Disease cases to justify their continued presence.)

Then, there was the incident of the blue goose......