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Red-chested Button-quail

(Turnix pyrrhothorax)
Size: 12-14 cm (male), 14-16 cm (female)
Weight: 28-46 g (male), 40-73 g (female)

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Description     Classification     Distribution     Sightings     Photos     Breeding     Nest     Eggs     Behaviour     Food     Call/s

Physical description

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Taxonomy, classification

See Red-chested Button-quail at Wikipedia .

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Range, habitat, finding this species

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Sightings

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Photos

ADULT

MALE

Frontal view of a male Red-chested Button-quail
[Eulah Creek, NSW, April 2020]

Near-frontal view of a male Red-chested Button-quail
[Eulah Creek, NSW, April 2020]

Near-frontal view of a male Red-chested Button-quail
[Eulah Creek, NSW, April 2020]

Near-lateral view of a male Red-chested Button-quail
[Eulah Creek, NSW, April 2020]

Lateral view of a male Red-chested Button-quail
[Eulah Creek, NSW, April 2020]

FEMALE

Near-frontal view of a female Red-chested Button-quail (photo courtesy of M. Roderick)
[Hexham Swamp, Hunter estuary, Newcastle, NSW, December 2017]

Lateral view of a female Red-chested Button-quail caught out in the middle of a road (photo courtesy of G. & G. Drady)
[Coonamble-Baradine road, NSW, February 2011]

Call(s)/Song

For this species we have recorded the following call(s)/song. The interpretation of their meaning is our own; comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome.

rcbqual_20201209.m4a (NW NSW) Contact call © MD

More Red-chested Button-quail sound recordings are available at xeno-canto.org .

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