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Red-backed Buttonquail (Turnix maculosus)
Additional Information
English Red-backed Buttonquail
Scientific (Turnix maculosus)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Turnicidae
Family (English) Buttonquail
Other name(s) Red-backed Button-quail
Regions AU
Breeding Range Subregions Sulawesi and Lesser Sundas to sc, ne, se New Guinea, n, e Australia and e Bismarck Arch.
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA) map Indonesia,Philippines,Solomon Islands,Australia,Papua New Guinea,
Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
kinneari Peleng (Banggai Is., e of Sulawesi)
salomonis Guadalcanal (sc Solomon Is.)
mayri Tagula and Veina (c Louisiade Arch., e of se New Guinea)
horsbrughi s New Guinea
giluwensis montane ec New Guinea
furvus Huon Pen. (ne New Guinea)
saturatus New Britain and Duke of York Is. (to ne of New Britain; se Bismarck Arch.)
savuensis Sawu (=Savu, e of Sumba, c Lesser Sundas)
maculosus Rote, Semau, Timor, Wetar, Kisar and Moa (e of Timor; e Lesser Sundas)
floresianus Sumbawa, Komodo, Padar, Flores and Alor (w, c Lesser Sundas)
sumbanus Sumba (sw Lesser Sundas)
obiensis Obi (nc Moluccas), Babar (far e Lesser Sundas) and Kai Is. (se Moluccas)
beccarii Sulawesi, Togian Is. (between ne and ec Sulawesi), Muna (s of se Sulawesi) and Tomia Is. (Tukangbesi Is., se of se Sulawesi)
melanotus ne WA to ec NSW (n, e Australia)
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Temminck, 1815)
Sound File(s)
German Fleckenlaufhühnchen
French Turnix moucheté
Chinese 红背三趾鹑
Japanese アカエリミフウズラ
Russian Красноспинная трёхпёрстка
Spanish Torillo moteado
Portuguese toirão-malhado
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)