Barred buttonquail (Female): Turnix suscitator

Barred buttonquail (Female)
Turnix suscitator

 

Barred buttonquail: Turnix suscitator

Gender: Female

Age: Adult

IUCN Status: Least Concern

Sighted at: Farrukhnagar, Distt. Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

Date: 27.6.2015

I couldn't move lest these shy birds vanished in the undergrowth. I was close...too close in the bushes. Pardon the twigs and all in the photograph therefore.

The central black neck and chest feathers are typical of females of the species.

Taxonomy:

Kingdom	-	Animalia
Phylum	-	Chordata
Class	-	Aves
Order	-	Turniciformes
Family	-	Turnicidae
Genus	-	Turnix
Species	-	suscitator

 

Photographed at Farrukhnagar, Distt. Gurgaon, Haryana, India, on 27^th June, 2015, using a Nikon D7200 camera and Tamron 150-600 mm lens.

 

© Prashant V Tenjarla