Button Quail
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see bustard quail.
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Bustard Quail - or button quail, any of the small ground-running Old World birds of the family Turnicidae.
Button Quails are not perching birds, and their feet are made for walking. So when putting your Quail in an aviary, make sure you remove the wire bottom. Instead, put wood shavings, shredded newspaper, or hamster/gerbil bedding.
Button Quail
Name "button' probably because chicks are size of a "button'
Can be found throughout the world
Have been kept for hundreds of years, once even used in Asia for 'cock fighting' ...
Button Quails can become very tame and may readily accept being scratched under the chin. They are not cuddly birds, but their antics are amusing and their size and quietness make them an easy-to-care-for pet.
The Plains Wanderer, sometimes referred to as the Collared Hemipode because of its superficial resemblance to the Hemipode or Button Quails is a small bird (16 cm or 6.25 ins long) found only in the open grasslands of Australian .
In the wild they range from southeastern Asia to Oceania with 10 different subspecies. It sometimes goes by the name "button Quail", though this name properly refers to similar-looking but distantly related birds of the genus Turnix.
 See also: Quail, Hemipode, Fly, Bustard, Buttonquail
  
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