Yellow-legged Buttonquail (Turnix tanki)

Bangladesh (B), Bhutan (B), Cambodia (B), China (mainland) (B), India (B), Laos (B), Myanmar (B), Nepal (B), North Korea (B), Pakistan (B), Russia (Asian) (B), South Korea, Thailand (B), Vietnam (B).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
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Yellow-legged Buttonquail (Turnix tanki) [XC266614]
by Albert Lastukhin from Khasanskiy rayon, Primorskiy kray, Russian Federation (song)

Yellow-legged Buttonquail (Turnix tanki) [XC266619]
by Frank Lambert from Khasanskiy rayon, Primorskiy kray, Russian Federation (song)

Subspecies
May be closely related to Red-backed Button-quail (Turnix maculosus), although this proposal has not been widely accepted.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

tanki Blyth, 1843 - Indian Subcontinent, Andaman and Nicobar Is.
blanfordii Blyth, 1863 - Myanmar through Indochina to eastern China, breeding north to Korea and extreme Seast of Soviet Far East (southern Amurland and Ussuriland).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Yellow-legged Buttonquail (Turnix tanki) - 10 files

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