Yellow-legged Buttonquail

How to identify

Field marks

1. Adult male has deep yellow legs and feet
2. Tail short; wingtips rounded
3. Adult male has round black markings on the sides of the breast
4. Adult male has a black crown edged pale yellowish-brown

Male, female and young

Female is slightly larger and more brightly colored; breeding adult female has a broad reddish-brown collar on the nape; juvenile resembles a duller male.

Where and when it's recorded

Yellow-legged Buttonquail has been recorded at 150 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 10 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Muravyevka ParkRussia64 records
2. Lat Krabang – Thap Yao paddies & aquaculture pondsThailand20 records
3. Chitwan National ParkNepal16 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaThailandRussiaIndiaNepalCambodiaVietnamMyanmar (Burma)

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The yellow-legged buttonquail (Turnix tanki) 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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