Synoicus ypsilophorus
IUCN
LCAlias:Synoicus ypsilophorus,Brown Quail
Basic Information
Scientific classification
- name:Synoicus ypsilophorus
- Aliases:Synoicus ypsilophorus,Brown Quail
- Outline:Landfowl
- Family:Chickeniformes Pheasant family Cyanothorax
Vital signs
- length:17-22cm
- Weight:75-140g
- lifetime:No textual research information is available
Feature
Details
Synoicus ypsilophorus (Brown Quail) has 10 subspecies. It is mainly active at dawn and dusk, and the call is loud. Feeds on seeds and young grasses.
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: Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor.
Introduced: Fiji and New Zealand.
Form
The brown blue-breasted quail is 17-22 cm long; Males 75-140 g, females 85-140 g; Wingspan 26-36 cm. The breast feathers are different from the common blue breast quail, with no stripes.