The female is polyandrous , initiating courtship among several males and expelling rival females from her territory.
At a glance
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Range map
Aggregated occurance data is sourced from 14 different actively-updating datasets including eBird Australia, iNaturalist Australia, BirdLife Australia, and multiple state-based bird surveys through Atlas of Living Australia.
Species notes
Overview
Small, dark, secretive buttonquail with pale eye, found in dense grassland habitats, where most commonly observed exploding from cover and flying rapidly away. Adult female has rich rusty-orange chest; male paler, with white chin.
Behavior
In flight, note the fairly uniformly dark upperparts, with less contrast between flight feathers and coverts than in most other buttonquail.
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