Painted Button-quail

Turnix varius

Springvale Rd, Wondecla State Forest, FN Qld IMG_1195 20201102 - male

Notes: Large woodland button-quail. Female larger, brighter. Red iris,
rufous shoulder patch. Heavily barred black, streaked white. Head spotted white.
Rotates while scratching in leaf debris, forming platelet depressions ~ 14cm dia.
In dry open woodlands w. much leaf-litter, some understory of grasses.

Range from eBird©(last 10 years)