Common Buttonquail
Turnix sylvaticus
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Buttonquail (Turnicidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
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.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Countries
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Côte d'Ivoire
- DR Congo
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- India
- Indonesia
- Italy
- Kenya
- Laos
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Republic of the Congo
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Vietnam
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Common buttonquail
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
