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Quail Perched on a Branch Turning Its Head (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 branch in a dry, leafless environment. The bird turns its head from side to side, observing its surroundings. The background consists of tangled, bare branches under natural light.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for wildlife documentary cutaways, Baja California Sur travel edits, conservation pieces, and natural history social cuts needing a quail in dry Cabo Pulmo brush.
Edit role
A six-second insert or quiet cutaway that can bridge desert landscape coverage with closer wildlife detail as the quail holds on a branch and turns its head.
Visual details
A patterned quail perches on a pale branch amid tangled leafless twigs, with gray, white, tan, and brown markings in natural light and no visible people.
Shot mechanics
Ground-camera wildlife composition with the bird held in the foreground to midground, a shallow-looking tangled brush background, and no camera movement evident from the still frames.

Tags

quailbirdperchedbranchdryaridnaturalhead turningmovementtwigsbrowngraywhitepatternedwildnaturepheasantwildlifedroneaerial

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
6s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
27 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 faces slightly left while perched on a pale branch in dry Cabo Pulmo brush, with tan twigs behind it and no visible people.
The opening frame shows the quail settled on a branch against dry leafless scrub. (0:00)
The quail remains perched in Cabo Pulmo scrub with its head angled farther to the side, showing white face markings, patterned breast feathers, and no visible people.
This frame gives a clear side-turned head position for an editor needing visible bird behavior. (0:01)
A quail stands upright on the branch in the Cabo Pulmo brush, with its dark head plume and rounded patterned body visible against a soft dry background and no visible people.
The third frame emphasizes the bird's upright posture and patterned body against the arid brush. (0:02)
The quail is framed closer to a foreground twig in the Cabo Pulmo scrub, with its face markings partly turned and no visible people in the scene.
This frame shows the bird partially screened by a twig, adding natural brush texture to the cutaway. (0:03)

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