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Button quail is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BUTTON QUAIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Buttonquail

Buttonquail or hemipodes are members of a small family of birds, Turnicidae, which resemble, but are unrelated to, the quails of Phasianidae. They inhabit warm grasslands in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Australia. There are 16 species in two genera, with most species being found in the genus Turnix and only one being found in the genus Ortyxelos. Buttonquails are small, drab, running birds, which avoid flying. The female is the more brightly coloured of the sexes, and initiates courtship. Unusually, the buttonquails are polyandrous, with the females circulating among several males and expelling rival females from her territory. Both sexes cooperate in building a nest in the earth, but only the male incubates the eggs and tends the young. The eggs hatch after an incubation period of 12 or 13 days, and the young are able to fly within two weeks of hatching.

Definition of button quail in the English dictionary

The definition of button quail in the dictionary is any small quail-like terrestrial bird of the genus Turnix, such as T. sylvatica, occurring in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World: family Turnicidae, order Gruiformes Also called: hemipode.

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Synonyms and antonyms of button quail in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «button quail» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BUTTON QUAIL

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The translations of button quail from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «button quail» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

按钮鹌鹑
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

botón de codorniz
570 millions of speakers

English

button quail
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बटन बटेर
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

زر السمان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кнопка перепела
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

botão de codorna
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বোতাম কোয়েল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bouton caille
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Puyuh butang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Taste Wachtel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ボタンウズラ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

버튼 메추라기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tombol puyuh
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

nút chim cút
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொத்தானை காடை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बटण लहान पक्षी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Düğmeli bıldırcın
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pulsante di quaglia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przycisk przepiórek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кнопка перепела
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

buton de prepelita
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

κουμπί ορτύκια
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

knoppie kwartel
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

knapp vaktel
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

knappen vaktel
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BUTTON QUAIL»

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International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Brown bear - cheetah
Among button quails it is the males (above) rather than the females that take care of incubation. BUTTON QUAIL The common buzzard often spots prey by waiting. BUTTON. QUAIL. Button quails are small birds, 4-7 inches (10-18 cm) long, ...
‎2002
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Wildlife of the Box-Ironbark Country
Little. Button-quail. Tumix velox • since 1970 • before 1970 Range and Status: Most common on plains further north. Irregular and usually uncommon migrants to box- ironbark areas in spring and summer. Habitat: Native grasslands and grassy ...
Christopher L. Tzaros, 2005
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Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds
Turnix maculosus has also been associated closely with, or treated as conspecific with, T. tanki (Yellow-legged Button-quail; Asia) (Sutter 1955; Etchécopar and Hüe 1978; Johnsgard 1991). Nevertheless, most authors align T. maculosus with ...
Les Christidis, Walter Boles, 2008
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Australian Bird Names: A Complete Guide
Tellingly, CSIRO (1969) didn't even list 'button-quail' as having been used in Australia until that time, except as an alternative name for Little Button- quail, and there without an adjective. RAOU (1978) reported that the usage was widespread  ...
Jeannie Gray, Ian Fraser, 2013
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A Bird Atlas of Kenya
181 BUTTON QUAIL Turnix sylvatica B193 / MPG365 / D1C1 Afrotropical: widely distributed S of 15°N, except for many of the equatorial lowland forest areas of the W, and the drier areas of E Somalia and the SW. Kenyan: a locally common ...
Adrian Lewis, Derek Pomeroy, 1989
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Finding Australian Birds: A Field Guide to Birding Locations
The very rare Buff-breasted Button- quail have been recorded alongside the Mulligan Hwy near Lake Mitchell – look in the woodlands at the base of the hillside east of a truck stop 18 km south of Mount Molloy (21 km north of Mareeba/ 1.5 km ...
Rohan Clarke, Tim Dolby, 2014
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John Gould's Extinct and Endangered Birds of Australia
(HOUTMAN ABROLHOS SUBSPECIES) TURNIX VARIUS SCINTILLANS STATUS The Houtman Abrolhos subspecies of the Painted Button-quail is ENDANGERED. The species as a whole is of Least Concern. John Latham named the ...
Sue Taylor, 2012
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Queensland's Threatened Animals
Therefore, any location supporting Buff-breasted Button-quail is probably important to the long-term survival of the species. Habitat: Buff-breasted Button- quail are most frequently reported from stony and/or grassy woodlands and forests.
Lee K. Curtis, Andrew J. Dennis, Keith R. Macdonald, 2012
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Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi
Common Button-quail Turnix sylvatica 14cm, 5.5” [Kurrichane Buttonquail, Little Button-quail] If seen well ad shows pale eyes, very scaly upperparts, a rufous- orange wash across the breast, and black spots on the sides of the breast and flanks ...
Terry Stevenson, John Fanshawe, 2004
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The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia
... 367 Butcherbird, (Silver-backed) Grey 366 Button-quail, Black-breasted 66, 74, 75, 76, 80, 81, 290, 291, 407 Button-quail, Buff-breasted 65, 98, 100, 105, 291, 292, 422 Button-quail, Chestnut-backed 112, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 129, 144,  ...
Richard Thomas, Sarah Thomas, David Andrew, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BUTTON QUAIL»

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Lifetime fascination with Australian birds leads to prestigious award …
It was the start of lifelong passion and a quest to find the rare and elusive buff-breasted button quail, one of the few Australian birds to have not ... «ABC Online, Mar 15»
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Exciting fauna finds in Council's environmental reserves
Preliminary fauna data also includes a sighting of a black breasted button Quail Turnix melanogaster listed as vulnerable in Queensland under ... «My Sunshine Coast, Jan 15»
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Butterfly House uses Button Quail as natural pest control
Bugs or Button Quail to eat all our ants," Executive Director Audrey ... And so, eleven male Button Quail call the Sertoma Butterfly House home. «KSFY, Dec 14»
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Our top five worst plant invaders
Hurts the habitat of the rare black breasted button quail. Source: Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. - APN NEWSDESK. Fraser Coast ... «Fraser Coast Chronicle, Oct 14»
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Hatoful Boyfriend: Hands-on with the weirdest game on PC
... with pudding, a narcoleptic button quail, an antisocial chukar partridge, an RPG-obsessed Luzon bleeding-heart, a snobbish aristocrat fantail ... «PCR-online.biz, Sep 14»
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Hatoful Boyfriend re-release sees everybirdie courting pigeons again
The button quail is incredibly brilliant, yet his mild-mannered nature and 'condition' often makes his lectures go unheard. But if secretive birdies ... «GMA News, Aug 14»
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Cry to save reserve forest from zoo inside
“Highly endangered birds like the Yellow Sand Grouse, Chestnut Bellied Sand Grouse, Yellow Throated Bulbul, Yellow Footed Button Quail ... «Calcutta Telegraph, May 14»
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ADORABLE! Check out the baby boom at the Racine Zoo
Button quail chicks are expected to arrive within a week and guests will have the opportunity to watch as the eggs hatch in the nursery ... «fox6now.com, May 14»
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Items seized, but no bodies yet in search for dead babies
ST AGNES is the kind of place you'd be more likely to find a black-breasted button quail than hidden, decade-old graves of several newborns. «Bundaberg News Mail, Mar 14»
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Flower shows, greenhouses to get you through
... Lamberton Conservatory in Highland Park (highlandparkrochester.org), also fairly recently revamped — and with adorable little button quail ... «Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Mar 14»

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