Red-chested Buttonquail

Turnix pyrrhothorax (Gould, 1841)

Red-chested Buttonquail, Turnix pyrrhothorax, is a bird of Australia, breeding across most of the country except the north, south-east and Tasmania. It is a Turnicidae buttonquail and was first described by Gould in 1841. It is a small ground-dwelling bird that usually keeps to cover and rarely takes to the air. In the field it is best picked out by its grey-brown upperparts and chestnut-toned chest. It occurs in dense grassland and open grassy woodland, and also in crops and weedy fields with thick ground cover.

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Turnicidae — Buttonquail

Breeding range

Australasia: Australia (except n, se, Tasmania)