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s Quail live in warm deserts with brushy and thorny vegetation ? These birds also survive well in cultivated munities and prefer mesquite lined river valleys and drainages near these lands ? Common plants found in the quails39。 habitat include: desert hackberry, mesquites, little leaf sumac, desert thorns, catclaw acacia, scrub oak, and various other types of desert shrubbery ? Diet ? Niy percent of the Gambel39。s Quail) ? Habitat ? Gambel39。s Quail diet es from plants. ? Various types of seeds and leaves are eaten throughout the year. ? During certain times of year fruits and berries from cacti are eaten. ? A few insects are eaten during the nesting season in spring and early summer. Zenaida macroura (Mourning Dove) ? Habitat ? Mourning doves like farms, small towns, open wood, scrub, roadsides and grasslands. ? Diet ? Mourning doves eat a wide variety of seeds, waste grain, fruit and insects. ? Occasionally, they eat in trees and bushes when the ground foods have bee scarce. ? Doves also like to ingest agricultural crops. Those especially coveted are cereal grains such as corn, millet, rye, barley, and oats. ? On rare occassions, doves can also be seen preying on grasshoppers, ants, beetles, and snails. Passer domesticus (House Sparrow) ? Habitat ? House Sparrows like areas that have been modified by humans, including farms, residential, and urban areas. They are absent from uninhabited woodlands, deserts, forests, and grasslands. ? D