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The yellow-legged buttonquail is a small quail growing to a length of 15 to 18 cm (6 to 7 in), the females being slightly larger and more brightly coloured than the males. The weight is 36 to 43 g (1.3 to 1.5 oz) for the subspecies Turnix tanki tanki, and 35 to 78 g (1.2 to 2.8 oz) for the male T. t. blanfordii, while the female of this subspecies is 93 to 113 g (3.3 to 4.0 oz). The tail is short and the wings have rounded ends. The adult male has a black crown with a buff margin, and sometimes a buff central streak.
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When to see the Yellow-legged Buttonquail
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Yellow-legged Buttonquail
The map shades 10 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Taiwan.
About the Yellow-legged Buttonquail
The yellow-legged buttonquail is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails. This family is peculiar in that the females are larger and more colourful than the males and are polyandrous.
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Easily confused with
Black-breasted ButtonquailTurnix melanogasterThe black-breasted buttonquail is a plump quail-shaped bird with predominantly marbled black, rufous and pale brown plumage, marked prominently with white spots and stripes, white eyes, a grey bill and yellowish feet.
Chestnut-backed ButtonquailTurnix castanotusThe chestnut-backed buttonquail is a species of bird in the family Turnicidae.
Black-rumped ButtonquailTurnix nanusThis species has a brown back, rufous chest, and pale belly, brown irises and a black rump.
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