Common buttonquail

The common buttonquail (Turnix sylvaticus), also called Kurrichane buttonquail, small buttonquail, or Andalusian hemipode is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble but are not closely related to the true quails.

Common buttonquail

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) (Global)

Extinct  (IUCN 3.1)(Europe)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Turnicidae
Genus: Turnix
Species:
T. sylvaticus
Binomial name
Turnix sylvaticus
(Desfontaines, 1789)
Synonyms

Turnix sylvatica

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