Painted Buttonquail
Turnix varius varius
Cemetery, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_0086 20231031 - male CLICK for another view.
Notes: Large woodland button-quail. Female larger, brighter.
Red iris, rufous shoulder patch,
larger on female. Forehead 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)
Springvale Rd, Wondecla State Forest, FNE Qld IMG_1195 20201102 - male
Springvale Rd, Wondecla State Forest, FNE Qld IMG_1219 20201102 - female
Cemetery, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_0118 20231031 - male CLICK for another view.
Cemetery, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_9749 20231029 - male CLICK for another view.
Cemetery, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_9704 20231029 - male CLICK for another view.
Cemetery, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_9741 20231029 - male. CLICK for pic of platelets due to foraging. W of SpringvaleRd, Wondecla State Forest, FNE Qld 20190908.
Cemetery, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_9756 20231029
Cemetery, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_0223 20231101
Cemetery, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_9661+9723 20231029