The New World Quail are very different from songbirds, the avian group for which we know the most about evolution and behavior.  We want to discover and tell the story of the evolution of the Callipepla quail.  This story has several chapters, including: Who was the ancestral Callipepla? We are using phylogenomic and systematic techniques to ask the basic question:  what are the characteristics of the ancestral species of the Callipepla genus?   This is Chapter … Continue reading →