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Quail Perched on Thorny Branch, Head Movements (Cabo Pulmo, 2023)

6s 4K UHD 29.97fps Wildlife Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico 2023
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About this clip

A quail is perched on a thorny branch in a dry, arid landscape. The bird moves its head, opening and closing its beak. The background consists of sparse, dry vegetation.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for wildlife documentaries, Cabo Pulmo travel edits, conservation pieces, agency mood reels, and social cuts needing a small desert bird in dry thorn scrub.
Edit role
The six-second shot works as a quiet wildlife cutaway or insert between broader arid landscape, road, or hillside shots from the same Cabo Pulmo sequence.
Visual details
A quail perches among pale thorny branches with soft dry vegetation behind it, warm daylight across gray and tan feathers, blurred foreground twigs, and no visible people.
Shot mechanics
Ground-camera composition holds the bird in the midground through a dense lattice of branches, with shallow depth of field separating the foreground twigs and dry background shrubs.

Tags

quailbirdthorny branchdry busharidhead movementbeak openingbeak closingperchednaturalcalmdry landscaperoadrunnerdesertbranchesdryshrubswildlifedroneaerial

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
6s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
31 MB
Location
Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Year filmed
2023
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

4 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 sits partly behind pale thorny branches in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, with blurred dry scrub in the background and no visible people.
The opening frame shows the quail settled among thorny branches in dry scrub. (0:00)
The quail remains perched in Cabo Pulmo brush with its head angled through a cluster of thin gray branches and no visible people.
This frame holds on the bird's head framed by the thorny branch lattice. (0:01)
A side view of the quail is partially screened by dry foreground twigs in Cabo Pulmo, with mottled feathers and no visible people.
The frame emphasizes the quail's patterned side and the dense dry brush around it. (0:02)
Quail perched low among thorny twigs

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