Common Buttonquail (Turnix sylvaticus)
About the Common Buttonquail
The common buttonquail (Turnix sylvaticus), also called Kurrichane buttonquail and Andalusian hemipode, is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds that resemble but are not closely related to the true quails. The common buttonquail was formally described and illustrated in 1789 by the French botanist René Louiche Desfontaines under the binomial name Tetrao sylvaticus. The specific epithet sylvaticus is Latin meaning "of the woods". It is now placed in the genus Turnix that was named in 1840 by Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre. Nine subspecies are recognised: T. s. sylvaticus (Desfontaines, 1789) – the southern Iberian Peninsula and northwestern Africa T. s. lepurana (Smith, A, 1836) – Africa south of the Sahara T. s. dussumier (Temminck, 1828) – eastern Iran to Myanmar
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 153 recordings for this species: 2 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Botswana, China, India, Kenya in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Other birds you can hear here
- Common GreenshankTringa nebulariarecording
- Barn SwallowHirundo rusticarecording
- Black KiteMilvus migransrecording
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticoraxrecording
- Black-winged KiteElanus caeruleusrecording
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopusrecording
These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.