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Common Buttonquail
Sign in to saveAlso known as Turnix sylvaticus, Turnix sylvatica, Little button-quail
species of bird
Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Turnix sylvaticus
- Commons category
- Turnix sylvaticus
- Commons gallery
- Turnix sylvaticus
- egg incubation period
- 13
- longest observed lifespan
- 9
- taxon common name
- toirão-do-mato
- diel cycle
- diurnality
- short name
- T. sylvaticus
- taxon range
- Africa
- has characteristic
- oviparity
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Encyclopedic overview
The common buttonquail (Turnix sylvaticus), also called Kurrichane buttonquail and Andalusian hemipode, is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds that resemble but are not closely related to the true quails.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Common Buttonquail” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.