Buttonquail (redirect from Turnicidae) Buttonquail or hemipodes are members of a small family of birds, Turnicidae, which resemble, but are not closely related to, the quails of Phasianidae... 10 KB (1,020 words) - 03:49, 24 March 2024 |
named for their superficial resemblance to quail, and form the family Turnicidae in the order Charadriiformes. The king quail, an Old World quail, often... 7 KB (634 words) - 11:15, 14 March 2024 |
Cave (Crimea), representing the first record of a member of the family Turnicidae from Eurasia from the Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene interval. A study... 105 KB (10,557 words) - 02:11, 30 April 2024 |
The families of mesites or roatelos (Mesitornithidae), button-quails (Turnicidae), Australian plains-wanderer (Pedionomidae), seriemas (Cariamidae), and... 33 KB (2,983 words) - 19:12, 29 March 2024 |
(7 species) Family Alcidae – auks (25 species) and sometimes: Family Turnicidae – buttonquails (18 species) Baker, A.J.; Pereira, S.L.; Paton, T.A. (2007)... 6 KB (487 words) - 18:55, 10 March 2024 |
for their similar appearance. They are presently placed in the family Turnicidae of the Charadriiformes, classified as shorebirds. The collective noun... 5 KB (473 words) - 05:08, 15 March 2024 |