BROWN QUAIL

Photographed at Shakespear Regional Park, June 2017

(*  172)                 BROWN QUAIL               Coturnix ypsilophora

NEW ZEALAND                    18

An Australian introduction which is well establish and locally common in the top half of North Island. 18 cm. Found in scrub edges in rough farmland.

BROWN QUAIL

172              BROWN QUAIL              Coturnix ypsilophora

Australia          (172)

Also known as Silver, Swamp or Tasmanian Quail. 16-22 cm. Largest of the native Quail. Eyes are red on the mainland, yellow in Tasmania. Found in rank grasses beside wetlands, drains, pastures, swampy coastal heaths, bracken, thickets, tropical grasslands and spinifex savannah. Range across n. e. se. and sw. mainland, and Tasmania.