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Barred Buttonquail (common bustard-quail)

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The barred buttonquail or common bustard-quail (Turnix suscitator) is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails. This species is resident from India across tropical Asia to south China, Indonesia and the Philippines.The species occurs throughout India up to elevations of about 2500 m in the Himalayas, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Burma and most of Southeast Asia. There are four geographical races that differ somewhat in colour.
A typical little buttonquail, rufous-brown above, rusty and buff below. Chin, throat and breast closely barred with black. Female larger and more richly coloured, with throat and middle of breast black. The blue-grey bill and legs, and yellowish white eyes are diagnostic, as are also the pale buff shoulder-patches on the wings when in flight. Absence of hind toe distinguishes Bustard and Button quails from true quails. Pairs, in scrub and grassland. The calls are a motorcycle-like drr-r-r-r-r-r and a loud hoon- hoon-hoon. Found in most habitats except dense forest and desert, in particular, scrub jungle, light deciduous forest, bushes and farmlands.
Differs from true quails chiefly in the female being polyandrous. The female is the brighter of the sexes, initiates courtship and builds the ground nest. She fights with other females for the possession of a cock, uttering a loud drumming drr-r-r-r-r as a challenge to rival hens and also to announce herself to a cock. Eggs when laid are left to be incubated by the cock who also tends the young, which can run as soon as they are hatched. The hen goes off to acquire another husband, and perhaps yet another, and so on, evidently only one at a time.
They are very shy and it is very difficult to take pictures of them in the open. 
Image size
2372x1582px 809.81 KB
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D5200
Shutter Speed
1/250 second
Aperture
F/5.6
Focal Length
260 mm
ISO Speed
320
Date Taken
Jul 18, 2017, 8:57:30 AM
Sensor Size
9mm
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