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Quail Adjusting Topknot on a Dry Branch (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 perches on a dry branch amidst leafless bushes. The bird moves its head and topknot, with its beak opening and closing. The background remains static with sparse, grayish-brown vegetation.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for wildlife documentary inserts, Baja California Sur travel edits, conservation pieces, and natural history social cuts needing a close quail moment in dry scrub habitat.
Edit role
Works as a six-second cutaway or behavioral insert between wider Cabo Pulmo desert views, giving an editor a quiet bird detail before returning to roads, hillsides, or landscape coverage.
Visual details
A quail with a dark topknot stands among gray-brown leafless brush, showing patterned side feathers, a white facial stripe, muted daylight, dry branches, and no visible people.
Shot mechanics
Ground-camera wildlife framing holds the bird in the midground against a soft tangle of arid brush, with the head and topknot changing position while the background remains static.

Tags

quailtopknotbranchdrybushmovementheadbeaknaturalaridperchedbirdfeathersgraybrownstilladjustingpheasantdroneaerial

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
6s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
36 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 in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur stands in left-facing profile among dry gray-brown branches, with its topknot angled back and no visible people.
The opening frame shows the quail settled in profile against sparse arid brush. (0:00)
A quail in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur raises its head slightly in the dry brush, showing its curved topknot, white face markings, patterned flank feathers, and no visible people.
This frame captures the bird lifting its head while the brush background stays unchanged. (0:01)
A side-on quail in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur stands amid tangled arid scrub with its topknot trailing backward, gray body, brown lower feathers, and no visible people.
The third frame gives a clean side view of the quail's markings in the dry vegetation. (0:02)
A quail in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur turns more toward the camera among pale dry bushes, with its dark throat patch prominent and no visible people.
This moment shows the bird rotating toward camera, adding a frontal behavioral variation. (0:03)

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