| 词条 | Quail-plover |
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| name = Quail-plover | image = Quail Plover, Poli, Cameroon (5891141663).jpg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = [1] | taxon = Ortyxelos meiffrenii | authority = (Vieillot, 1819) }} The lark buttonquail, lark-plover or quail-plover (Ortyxelos meiffrenii) is a species of buttonquail in the family Turnicidae. It is monotypic within the genus Ortyxelos. DescriptionThe quail-plover is a small, short-tailed cursorial bird which looks a little like a miniature courser when on the ground. The upperparts are a sandy-rufous colour and the underparts mainly whitish. They show a distinctive wing pattern in flight when the contrast between the white primary coverts and the black with white-tipped remiges to form a distinct diagonal band on the upperwing. Its fluttering flight style is rather lark-like. The females are slightly darker than the males while the juveniles are paler.[2] Habits and habitatThe quail-plover is usually found singly or in pairs in dry grassland and thorn scrub. It is rather skulking preferring to move stealthily through grass but also running around like a courser in the open. Tends to crouch down and hide when approached and flushes only when the observer is almost on top of it and then flies off with a jerky undulating flight. It breeds during the dry season and moves north ahead of the rains[2] It tends to be more active at night and to call with a soft low whistle like the wind going through a pipe during moonlit nights.[3] DistributionThe Sahel from southern Mauritania and northern Senegal eastwards to northern Cameroon and southern Chad[2] into South Sudan and southern Sudan[1] with separate population in northern Benin and coastal Ghana,[2] with another in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia.[4] Conservation statusThe quail-plover has an extremely large range, its population trend is not known, the population is not understood to be undergoing a sufficiently rapid decline to approach the thresholds under the population trend criterion while the population size has not been quantified so the species is evaluated as Least Concern.[4] References1. ^1 {{IUCN|id=22680603 |title=Ortyxelos meiffrenii |assessor=BirdLife International |assessor-link=BirdLife International |version=2013.2 |year=2012 |accessdate=26 November 2013}} 2. ^1 2 3 {{cite book | first1 = Nik | last1 = Borrow | first2 = Ron | last2 = Demey | year = 2001 | title = Birds of Western Africa | publisher = A & C Black | page = 408 | ISBN = 0-7136-3959-8}} 3. ^{{cite book | last1 = Zimmerman | first1 = Dale A. | last2 = Turner | first2 = Donald A. | last3 = Pearson | first3 = David J. | year =1996 | title = Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania | publisher = Christiopher Helm | pages = 372–373 | ISBN =0-7136-3968-7}} 4. ^1 {{cite web | url = http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=520 | title = Quail-plover Ortyxelos meiffrenii | accessdate = 17 October 2016 | publisher = Birdlife International}} }}{{Taxonbar|from=Q1274398}} 5 : Turnicidae|Birds of the Sahel|Birds of East Africa|Birds described in 1819|Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
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