Yellow-legged Button-Quail

The Yellow-legged Buttonquail is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails. This family is peculiar in that the females are more colourful than the males and are polyandrous.

The Yellow-legged Button-Quail is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

unfolded when I flushed a Yellow-legged Button-quail that fluttered up and down, deciding to hunker down in the snow where its usually superb camouflage is useless. Next we were off to the Tibetan plateau and spent two nights in Hong Yuan. Wild grasslands and freshwater meadows support thousands of yaks and attendant yak cowboys. Nomad tented camps spring up and the housing architecture becomes distinctly Tibetan. The bird fauna changes totally. More

The yellow-legged button-quail is easily distinguished from the bustard-quail by its yellow legs and bill, and, of course, from such of the true quails as are yellow-legged, by the absence of the hind toe. More

better birds of the trip, a tiny Yellow-legged Button-Quail which we saw briefly three times. The kingfisher boat cruise through Morgumgao Bay was also superb with four White-collared Kingfishers being seen, and Stork-billed and Black-capped Kingfishers being reduced to ‘pad fillers’. The cruise also gave us good views of Black-headed Ibis on the mudflats, and exceptional looks at Great Crested and Lesser Crested Terns. This is a trip not to be missed. More