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Quail on a Thorny Branch in Arid Landscape (Cabo Pulmo, 2023)

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

A quail is perched on a dry, thorny branch. The bird occasionally moves its head and beak. The background shows an arid, sparse landscape with dry vegetation.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for wildlife documentary inserts, Baja California Sur travel edits, conservation pieces, agency mood reels, and social cuts needing a small desert bird in dry scrub near Cabo Pulmo.
Edit role
This six-second clip works as a quiet cutaway or texture beat between wider desert road and hillside shots, giving an editor a close wildlife detail before returning to landscape coverage.
Visual details
A quail perches among pale thorny branches with a dry brown and gray scrub background, soft foreground blur, warm daylight, mottled feathers, and no visible people.
Shot mechanics
The ground-camera composition holds the bird in the midground behind intersecting dry branches, with shallow focus separating the quail from the sparse arid background.

Tags

quailbirddrybranchthornyariddesertperchedmovingheadsparsevegetationnaturalwildbrowngraylandscapestilldroneaerial

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 perches partly behind pale thorny branches in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, with dry scrub colors and no visible people.
The opening frame shows the quail settled among intersecting desert branches. (0:00)
The quail remains perched in Cabo Pulmo scrub, framed by leafless thorn branches and a soft brown background with no visible people.
This frame keeps the bird visible through the branch tangle for a tight wildlife insert. (0:01)
A side view of the quail shows patterned feathers and a pale facial stripe amid dry Cabo Pulmo brush, with no visible people.
The frame emphasizes the bird's markings against the muted desert vegetation. (0:02)
Quail perched behind blurred foreground twigs.

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