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Button-quail, Red backed

Turnix maculosus


A tiny button-quail of dense grasslends.

Found in grasslands, grassy woodlands and crops of tropical and warm temperate Australia, especially in tussock grasses of black soil plains and rank grasslands near wetlands and waterways. Locally common but secretive.

The Australian Bird Guide (Peter Menkhorst et al)

Classifications: Bird, forest and grassland
Family: Turnicidae (Button-quails)
Information sources: Photo Taken by Garlone Moulin at Mt Pleasant Stn

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