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 LC    Quail-plover* Id (Atlas):
    Ortyxelos meiffrenii

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Quail-plover, Lark Buttonquail, Lark-quail

Family
Turnicidae (Buttonquails)

Size
11 - 13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1819)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland and shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda.

Vagrant to Côte dIvoire, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo.

Tropical Africa, from Senegal east to Sudan and Kenya; breeds in southern Ghana and possibly elsewhere in western Africa.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

 
Quail-plover (Ortyxelos meiffrenii) [XC881227]
     by id from Kael (near Tip), Mback\u00e9, R\u00e9gion de Diourbel, Senegal (uncertain)

Subspecies
No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
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