Ptilopachus petrosus

2023-02-04 08:48:07 88

Name：Ptilopachus petrosus

Alias：Ptilopachus petrosus

Outline：Landfowl

Family：Chickeniformes P. family P.Genus

length：25-28cm

Weight：190g

Life：No textual research information is available

IUCN：LC

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

Ptilopachus petrosus Life habits and morphological characteristics

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.

Ptilopachus petrosus Distribution range and habitat

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.

Ptilopachus petrosus Detailed Introduction

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.

d1160924ab18972b5afc72d0edcd7b899f510ae1_ nine ray image converter. JPG

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).

Protect wild animals and eliminate wild meat.

Maintaining ecological balance is everyone's responsibility!

related information

similar animals

Apteryx haastii

Apteryx haastii, Great Sportted Kiwi, no subspecies.A pair of large spotted kiwis may carve out up to 100 shelters in their territory, often changing shelter every day. They do not leave their burrows during the day, except in dangerous situations. They usually come out at night. Foraging takes plac...

Apteryx owenii

Apteryx owenii, Little Spotted Kiwi, no subspecies.A pair of small spotted kiwis may dig up to 100 burrows in their territory and use them as shelters, often changing homes daily. They do not leave their burrows during the day, except in dangerous situations. They usually come out at night. Foraging...

Apteryx australis

Brown Kiwi Apteryx australis, foreign languages Brown Kiwi, Southern Brown Kiwi, there are 3 subspecies (1. Brown kiwi: Apteryx australis australis. 2. Brown Kiwi subspecies: Apteryx australis awryi. 3. North Island subspecies of Brown Kiwi: Apteryx australis mantelli.) .A pair of brown kiwis may di...

Pezophaps solitaria

The Rodrigues dodo is a bird that looks like a dodo, can't fly like a dodo, it's a kind of dodo. The dodo was hunted to extinction between 1662 and 1690, and the Reunion dodo was hunted to extinction, leaving only the Rodriguez dodo among the dodo species. Around 1730, it became one of the animals...

microgoura meeki

Solomon's crown dove is known as microgoura meeki and rothschild. In the central Pacific Ocean, near the equator, there are hundreds of small islands made up of the country - Solomon Islands, one of which is called the province of Choiseul, their provincial flag painted in the middle of a pigeon...

Columba jouyi

Columba jouyi is an extinct pigeon species from the Japanese islands of Okinawa, where they were last seen in 1904, but disappeared from the eastern island of Western Europe after 1936, although it is believed that they may still exist on the outlying islands, but it is not certain. In theory, there...

Ptilinopus mercierii

The scientific name Ptilinopus mercierii, foreign name Red-moustached Fruit-dove, Moustached Fruit Dove, the specific habit is unknown.Listed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ver 3.1:2010 Red List of Birds - Extinct (EX).Protect wild animals and eliminate wild meat.Mainta...

Alectroenas rodericana

The Alectroenas rodericana (Alectroenas rodericana) is an extinct pigeon on Rodrigues Island in the Mascarene Islands. All that is known about them is a few sternum and other bone subfossils, and a few descriptions. They are believed to be gentle birds and like to eat melon seeds. In 1693, they were...