Barred Buttonquail

Turnix suscitator (Gmelin, JF, 1789)

Barred Buttonquail, Turnix suscitator, breeds widely across the Oriental Region and is resident from India through tropical Asia to south China, Indonesia and the Philippines. It is a buttonquail in the family Turnicidae, a group that looks like true quails but is not closely allied to them. It is found in scrub, grassland, light deciduous forest and farmland, but not in dense forest or desert. A useful field mark is the blue-grey bill and legs, with yellowish white eyes and pale buff shoulder patches visible in flight.

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Turnicidae — Buttonquail

Breeding range

Oriental Region: widespread