Showing posts with label Coturnix pectoralis. Show all posts
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Monday, February 23, 2015

STUBBLE QUAIL

Photographed at night at Deniliquin, NSW, February 2015
515            STUBBLE QUAIL             Coturnix pectoralis

Australia             (356)

16-20 cm. Found in cereal crops and stubbles, lucerne; overgrown pastures and grasslands with thistles; saltbush, bluebush, spinifex; weedy margins of wetlands, irrigation channels, roadsides. Range e. and se Q, all NSW, Victoria and Tasmania; se. half SA. sw WA.