Wow!, four dozen in a covey! Those appear be Gambel's.(?) Thanks for resurrecting the thread with that picture.

I've hunted them in AZ and had a glorious time. If I lived out West I'd be an inveterate chaser of them, and the other quail species. How something with wings as little as they have can take flight and get out of range so fast is amazing. I thought wild Bobs were fast but the Gambel's take the cake.

May God bless America and those who defend her.