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Common buttonquail

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The common buttonquail, also called the Kurrichane buttonquail or Andalusian hemipode, is a small bird in the buttonquail family, a group that resembles but is not closely related to true quails. It is a tiny bird about 15 centimeters long with streaked sandy brown upperparts, buff underparts with black flank markings and a plain face, found from southern Spain and Africa through India and tropical Asia to Indonesia in warm grasslands and scrub jungle. It is notoriously difficult to observe because it runs on the ground and is reluctant to fly, and while it is Least Concern globally it went extinct in Europe as of 2021. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 1
Living or Extinct
Yes 2
Scientific Name
Turnix sylvaticus 2
Conservation Status
Least Concern 1
Sources
1. Common buttonquail (Wikipedia)
  • System/realm (stated plainly in the entity own recorded description)
    It is a tiny bird about 15 centimeters long with streaked sandy brown upperparts, buff underparts with black flank markings and a plain face, found from southern Spain and Africa through India and tropical Asia to Indonesia in warm grasslands and scrub jungle.
  • Speciesbox infobox, conservation status parameter
    status = LC
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2. Common buttonquail (Wikidata)
Wikidata
  • Wikidata Q18836 (P225 taxon name)
  • Statements section, conservation status (P141)
    IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
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