Painted Buttonquail

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Cemetery, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_0086 20231031 - male CLICK for another view.

Notes: Large woodland buttonquail. Female larger, brighter. Red iris, rufous shoulder patch,
larger on female. Forehead heavily barred black, streaked white. Head spotted white.
Rotates while scratching in leaf debris, forming platelet depressions ~14cm dia.
In dry open woodlands w. much leaf-litter, some understory of grasses.

Range from eBird^©(last 10 years)

Springvale Rd, Wondecla State Forest, FNE Qld IMG_1195 20201102 - male

Springvale Rd, Wondecla State Forest, FNE Qld IMG_1219 20201102 - female

Cemetery, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_0118 20231031 - male CLICK for another view.

Cemetery, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_9749 20231029 - male CLICK for another view.

Cemetery, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_9704 20231029 - male CLICK for another view.

Cemetery, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_9741 20231029 - male. CLICK for pic of platelets due to foraging. W of Springvale
Rd, Wondecla State Forest, FNE Qld 20190908.

Cemetery, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_9756 20231029

Cemetery, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_0223 20231101

Cemetery, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_9661+9723 20231029