Species factsheet

Common Buttonquail (Turnix sylvaticus)

Order: Turnix sylvaticus
Family: Buttonquail (Turnicidae)

Danish name: Løbehøne

Voices can be found here (External link)

Subspecies and Distribution

sylvaticus

s Iberian Pen., nw Africa

lepurana

Africa south of the Sahara

dussumier

e Iran to Burma

davidi

c Thailand to s China, n Indochina and Taiwan

bartelsorum

Java, Bali

whiteheadi

Luzon (n Philippines)

celestinoi

Bohol and Mindanao (s Philippines)

nigrorum

Negros I. (c Philippines)

suluensis

Sulu Arch. (sw Philippines)

Photos

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