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Chestnut-Backed Buttonquail

Educational resources on Chestnut-Backed Buttonquail

Chestnut-Backed Buttonquail or Turnix castanota is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Near Threatened . IUCN Profile of the Chestnut-Backed Buttonquail

Academic web links for the Chestnut-Backed Buttonquail.


ADW: Turnicidae: Classification: Turnix (buttonquail). Species Turnix castanota (chestnut-backed buttonquail).
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Turnicidae.html

ADW: Turnix: Classification: ...feature. Parent taxa. Family Turnicidae (buttonquail). Genus Turnix (buttonquail).
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Turnix.html

BIRDNET: Gruiformes species list: Turnix suscitator Madagascar Buttonquail Turnix nigricollis Black-breasted Buttonquail
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/splists/Gruiformescl.html

BIRDCHAT archives -- August 1997, week 4 (#164): Malloy on 24/6. CHESTNUT-BACKED BUTTONQUAIL (Turnix castanota) - c8 on the Gibb
http://listserv.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9708d&L=birdchat&F=&S=&P=12483







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