Odontophorus stellatus
IUCN
LCBasic Information
Scientific classification
- name：Odontophorus stellatus
- Aliases：Odontophorus stellatus，starred wood quail
- Outline：Landfowl
- Family：Chickeniformes Ornithidae Ornithidae
Vital signs
- length：22-30cm
- Weight：No textual research information is available
- lifetime：No textual research information is available
Feature
Details
starred wood quail (Odontophorus stellatus, starred wood quail) is active at dawn or dusk, living in family units, usually in small groups of up to 12 quails. They are used to looking for food on the ground and searching the soil for fallen seeds, fallen fruits and insects. Gentle, shy and cautious, she usually runs away on foot when frightened, and sometimes flies quickly for a short distance.
Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2016 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1: Not Threatened (LC).
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Location
Found in South America.
Form
Larger than Old World quails, they are 22-30 cm long and usually have crests on their heads. They are short, stout, short-tailed, stout quail birds. The upper part is divided into dark brown and the lower part is black, gray, brown or red.
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