| 词条 | Barred buttonquail |
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|image = Barred Button quail or Common Bustard-Quail (Turnix suscitatior) Photograph By Shantanu Kuveskar.jpg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = [1] | genus = Turnix | species = suscitator | authority = (Gmelin, 1789) }} The barred buttonquail or common bustard-quail (Turnix suscitator) is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails. This species is resident from India across tropical Asia to south China, Indonesia and the Philippines. DescriptionA typical little buttonquail, rufous-brown above, rusty and buff below. Chin, throat and breast closely barred with black. Female larger and more richly coloured, with throat and middle of breast black. The blue-grey bill and legs, and yellowish white eyes are diagnostic, as are also the pale buff shoulder-patches on the wings when in flight. Absence of hind toe distinguishes Bustard and Button quails from true quails. Pairs, in scrub and grassland. The calls are a motorcycle-like drr-r-r-r-r-r and a loud hoon- hoon-hoon.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} DistributionThe species occurs throughout India up to elevations of about 2500 m in the Himalayas, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Burma, Indonesia, the Philippines and most of Southeast Asia. There are four geographical races that differ somewhat in colour.[2] Within South Asia, it is known by many local names: Sansorai (Assam); Daoduma (Cachar); lnruibuma (Kacha Naga); Vohbubum (Kuki); Simokpho (Lepcha); linisk (Bhutea); Gulu, Gundra, Gundlu, Salui gundra (Hindi); Gulu (Bengal); Kalada - male, Pured - female (Telugu); Ankadik - male, Kurung kadik - female (Tamil); Durwa (Ratnagiri); Karechakki (Kannada); Bala watuwa (Sri Lanka).[3] Found in most habitats except dense forest and desert, in particular, scrub jungle, light deciduous forest and farmlands. Widespread and common throughout its large range, the barred buttonquail is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. NestingDiffers from true quails chiefly in the female being polyandrous.[3] The female is the brighter of the sexes, initiates courtship and builds the ground nest. She fights with other females for the possession of a cock, uttering a loud drumming drr-r-r-r-r as a challenge to rival hens and also to announce herself to a cock. Eggs when laid are left to be incubated by the cock who also tends the young, which can run as soon as they are hatched. The hen goes off to acquire another husband, and perhaps yet another, and so on, evidently only one at a time.
References1. ^{{IUCN|id=22680549 |title=Turnix suscitator |assessor=BirdLife International |assessor-link=BirdLife International |version=2013.2 |year=2012 |accessdate=26 November 2013}} 2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Turnix_suscitator/|title=Turnix suscitator (barred buttonquail)|website=Animal Diversity Web|language=en|access-date=2018-01-22}} 3. ^1 {{cite book|last=Ali|first=Salim|authorlink=Salim Ali (ornithologist)|author2=J C Daniel |authorlink2=J. C. Daniel (naturalist)|title=The book of Indian Birds, Twelfth Centenary edition|year=1983|publisher=Bombay Natural History Society/Oxford University Press|location=New Delhi}}
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