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Quail Perched on a Branch with Head Movements (San Carlos, 2022)

8s 4K UHD 29.97fps Wildlife San Carlos, Baja California Sur, Mexico 2022
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About this clip

A quail is perched on a tree branch. Its head moves, with the crest rising and falling and beak opening and closing. The background shows green foliage and bare branches.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for wildlife documentary inserts, Baja California Sur travel edits, conservation pieces, agency mood reels, and social cuts needing a close view of a quail in dry coastal foliage.
Edit role
The 8-second duration works as a quiet cutaway or insert between broader San Carlos beach and shoreline scenes, giving a timeline a small wildlife beat with visible head and beak movement.
Visual details
A gray quail perches among bare twigs and green foliage in bright daylight, with patterned flank feathers, a dark face marking, a raised crest, and no visible people.
Shot mechanics
The ground-camera view holds a tight side composition on the perched bird, with branches filling the foreground and background while the quail stays near the left and center of the frame.

Tags

quailbirdbranchtreeperchedheadmovementbeakcrestnaturaloutdoorfoliagegreengraymotionwildlifenaturebranches

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
8s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
100 MB
Location
San Carlos, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Year filmed
2022
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

3 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

A quail perches side-on among bare branches and green foliage in San Carlos, Baja California Sur, with its crest angled upward and no visible people.
The opening frame shows the quail settled on a branch before its small head movements continue. (0:00)
The quail remains perched in the same shrub in San Carlos, Baja California Sur, with its beak open slightly against a background of green leaves and bare twigs, and no visible people.
This frame captures the beak-opening detail that gives the static wildlife shot usable motion. (0:01)
A quail stands on thin branches in San Carlos, Baja California Sur, with its crest raised and body turned sideways amid dense gray twigs and bright green foliage, with no visible people.
The frame holds the bird in profile, useful as a clean wildlife insert with a textured natural background. (0:02)

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