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Quail's Topknot Moves While Perched on Branch
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About this clip
A quail perched on a branch moves its head and topknot. The bird's head turns, adjusting its position. Dry, leafless branches form the background.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Wildlife editors, documentary producers, travel edits, and social cuts can use this Cabo Pulmo quail moment to show small desert bird behavior in Baja California Sur.
- Edit role
- This six-second shot works as a quiet cutaway, insert, or breathing beat between wider arid landscape scenes and road footage from the same Cabo Pulmo collection.
- Visual details
- A quail perches among dry leafless branches, with a gray body, black face patch, white facial outline, scaled brown chest pattern, moving head, upright topknot, muted light, and no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 4K UHD
- Duration
- 6s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- Location
- Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Year filmed
- 2023
- Published
- Jun 2026
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2 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.
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