Chestnut-backed Buttonquail

nr Drysdale R Station, NE WA IMG_9306 20180824 - Female

Notes: Large, little-known button-quail. Deep-rufous back w. dark ladders. Olive-grey breast
spotted cream. Short, heavy bill, yellow eye. Male forehead mottled white & black, cream
markings on breast large & smudgy. Female larger, brighter; grey-black forehead; cream streaks
on underparts smaller & neater. Monsoon eucalypt forests, sandstone slopes, hills w. spinifex,
sparse grass groundcover.

Range from Morcombe^©

nr Drysdale R Station, NE WA IMG_9305 20180824 - Female

nr Drysdale R Station, NE WA IMG_9308 20180824 - Female

nr Drysdale R Station, NE WA IMG_9307 20180824 - Female

location IMG_xxxx 20160709

location MVI_6666 20180909