The charming Resting Quail is modeled after Wheatley Allen's first bird carving, a quail he carved as a boy at the request of "Trader Vic" Bergeron in 1950. California quails have long served as an inspiration to Allen. "When I was a boy in the rural part of Marin County," Allen explains, "I marveled at the way a covey of quail could explode from a quiet bush. Each mother quail has a family of a dozen or more chicks every spring with her mate. Although many chicks are lost to predators including intruding house cats, a covey of quail can include as many as sixty birds. Among all that bustle, there is something sweet about a single, resting quail." A bronze quail from this edition is in the collection of California Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Size: 7" tall.