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Turnix olivii

[edit] Identification

18-23cm

• Rufous-brown upperparts
• White chin and throat
• Olive-buff breast
• Whitish belly, tail coverts and flanks
• Grey underwings
• Grey-black upperwings
• White streaks and black bars on back and shoulders
• White wing spots
• Brown bill, with bluish-white cutting edge and lower mandible
• Yellow iris, legs and feet
  

Male

• Whitish head with black freckling
• Grey crown and hind-neck
• Prominent black stripe (mottled chestnut-brown) on sides
  

Female

• Grey head (occasionally shows white speckling)
• Dark grey forehead
• Grey crown and hind-neck
• Prominent chestnut stripe on sides

[edit] Distribution

Graphic by Nrg800

Northern Australia: Cape York Peninsula of northern Queensland

[edit] Taxonomy

A monotypic species.

[edit] Habitat

Woodlands, and lowland, subcoastal grasslands, rock and scrub.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes seeds and insects.

[edit] Breeding

They nest in a shallow depression lined with grass and leaves, with a dome of grasses and a side entrance, hidden in grass, low scrubs or tussocks. The clutch consists of 2-4 round, white, chestnut, blue-grey or black speckled eggs. The male incubates the eggs and cares for the young.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Australian Government

• List of references

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