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 LC    Harlequin Quail* Id (Atlas):
    Coturnix delegorguei

Description (10)
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Family
Phasianidae (Pheasants, Partridges, Turkeys, Grouse)

Size
16 cm

First Described (Guide)
Delegorgue, 1847

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland. From sea-level - 1,850 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola (B), Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea (B), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sâo Tomé e Principe, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Gambia, Ghana, Lesotho, Oman.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (36)...)

 
Harlequin Quail (Coturnix) [XC510816]
     by Remco Hofland from Lobata, S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9, Sao Tome (song)

 
Harlequin Quail (Coturnix delegorguei) [XC746384]
     by GABRIEL LEITE from Jazan - Route 55 Pivot Fields, Saudi Arabia (song)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Rain Quail (Coturnix coromandelica).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • arabica Bannerman, 1929   -  Southern Arabia.
  • delegorguei Delegorgue, 1847   -  Ivory Coast to Ethiopia and south to South Africa (eastern Cape Province), excluding forest belt and arid south-western Africa; apparently only migrant to western Africa.
  • histrionica Hartlaub, 1849   -  Sío Tomé, Gulf of Guinea.



References
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Files:
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