Buff-breasted Buttonquail
Turnix oliviiRobinson, HC, 1900
English (US) Buff-breasted Buttonquail
The Buff-breasted Buttonquail (Turnix olivii) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Turnicidae (Buttonquail) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: northeastern Australia (Cape York Peninsula, northern Queensland); possibly extinct, last verified record 1924Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Turnix olivii
- Family
- Turnicidae (Buttonquail)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Critically Endangered
- English (US)
- Buff-breasted Buttonquail
- Described by
- Robinson, HC, 1900
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Robinson, HC, 1900
- Type locality
- Cooktown, Queensland.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 10 p.43
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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