Ptilopachus petrosus

IUCN

Alias：Ptilopachus petrosus

Basic Information

Scientific classification

name：Ptilopachus petrosus
Aliases：Ptilopachus petrosus
Outline：Landfowl
Family：Chickeniformes P. family P.Genus

Vital signs

length：25-28cm
Weight：190g
lifetime：No textual research information is available

Feature

The body feathers are mainly chocolate brown with sparse cream-gray spots

Details

Ptilopachus petrosus usually lives in pairs or small groups of up to four quails and feeds on grass and herb seeds, green leaves, fruits and buds, and some insects.

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In captivity they are monogamous, but in the wild they are mostly monogamous. The eggs are pale pink, faded to cream, and the whole of the subadult bird is dark chocolate brown, and the feathers mature into adult feathers after a few weeks. The male birds play an important role in the incubation and rearing of the chicks, guarding them and providing food to the subadult birds, and when they get insects or seeds, they drop them and call the chicks to come for food.

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

Origin: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d 'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Form

The quail is 25-28 cm long and weighs 190 grams. The special feature of this quail is that the female bird's eyes are brighter and more striking than the male bird's. The upper body plumage of both sexes is predominantly an earthy chocolate brown with sparse pale cream gray spots. The head, neck and chest are lighter brown and have wider cream edges, making the feathers look more fluffy and comfortable. The male's lower breast and belly are orange cream; The female is nearly pale and creamy. Both sexes have crests that form a slightly higher feather peak, but the female's feathers are much longer and therefore more pronounced.