Diet
Ocellated Quail has a varied diet that includes seeds, fruits, buds, insects, and tubers (especially oxalids). In Mexico eats bulbs of Cyperus esculentus, Oxalis, Brodiaea, and Echeandia terniflora. Also eats a variety of insects, such as butterflies, beetles, grasshoppers, spiders, mosquitoes, and ants.