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Quail Perched on a Dry 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 remains perched on a dry branch throughout the sequence. It moves its head, likely preening or observing its surroundings. The background features bare, dry branches in an arid environment.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for wildlife documentary inserts, Cabo Pulmo travel edits, conservation pieces, agency mood reels, and social cuts needing a close desert bird moment in Baja California Sur.
Edit role
This six-second shot works as a quiet cutaway or insert between wider arid landscape clips, giving an editor a close wildlife beat before returning to roads, hillsides, or dry terrain.
Visual details
A quail perches on a pale dry branch against a soft background of bare twigs and rocky brown desert scrub, with gray, white, black, and tan markings and no visible people.
Shot mechanics
The ground-camera composition holds the bird in the foreground with shallow background detail, using a tight telephoto-like view where the quail shifts its head while the surrounding brush stays visually consistent.

Tags

quailbirdperchedbranchdryariddesertmovementheadpreeningnaturalwildbrowngraywhitebeakstillbackgrounddroneaerial

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
6s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
26 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 upright on a pale dry branch in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, with bare twigs and brown scrub behind it and no visible people.
The opening frame shows the quail settled on the branch within the dry desert brush. (0:00)
The quail remains on the dry branch in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, turning its head close to a foreground twig with no visible people in the frame.
This moment captures a subtle head turn as the bird stays balanced on the branch. (0:01)
A side view of the perched quail in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, shows its white face stripe, black head plume, gray body, and tan belly against dry brush with no visible people.
The second-second frame gives a clearer side profile of the bird's markings. (0:02)
Quail partly turned on a pale branch in dry brush.

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