Other common symptoms include fever, headache, deformity of the nose, weakness, dizziness and sore throat. Complications of epistaxis include nausea and vomiting due to the swallowing of blood. More serious complications can include anemia, hypovolemic shock, airway obstruction and very rarely, death.
Fully grown Gambel's quails subsist upon a diet that is 90 percent vegetarian. Insects remain in their diet as a supplement, especially during nesting season when their caloric needs are greater.
Gambel's Quail is more contrastingly patterned, lacks the scaled underparts of California Quail, and occurs farther east. Mountain Quail has a shorter tail, a long, straight head plume, and a bold flank pattern. The Gray Partridge has no head plume and rusty-striped flanks, with a rusty face.