Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Charadriiformes > Turnicidae > Turnix > Turnix maculosusTurnix maculosus (Red-backed Buttonquail)Synonyms: Hemipodius maculosus; Turnix maculosa The red-backed buttonquail (Turnix maculosus) is a species of bird in the family Turnicidae. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and the Solomon Islands. Other names by which it is known in different parts of its range include black-backed, black-spotted and orange-breasted buttonquail. There are fourteen recognised subspecies. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 11.5481 EDGE Score: 2.52957 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 39 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 4.6 grams | | Female Weight [4] | 45 grams | | Male Weight [4] | 34 grams | | Weight Dimorphism [4] | 32.4 % |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 40 % | | Diet - Plants [3] | 30 % | | Diet - Seeds [3] | 30 % | | Forages - Ground [3] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [6] | 4 | | Clutches / Year [1] | 2 | | Fledging [1] | 7 days | | Incubation [5] | 14 days | | Mating Display [2] | Ground display | | Mating System [2] | Polyandry | | | Female Maturity [1] | 0 years 12 months |
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Arnhem Land tropical savanna |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Banda Sea Islands moist deciduous forests |
Indonesia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Brigalow tropical savanna |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Cape York Peninsula tropical savanna |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Central Range montane rain forests |
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Eastern Australian temperate forests |
Australia |
Australasia |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Einasleigh upland savanna |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Halmahera rain forests |
Indonesia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Huon Peninsula montane rain forests |
Papua New Guinea |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Kimberly tropical savanna |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Lesser Sundas deciduous forests |
Indonesia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Louisiade Archipelago rain forests |
Papua New Guinea |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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New Britain-New Ireland lowland rain forests |
Papua New Guinea |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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New Guinea mangroves |
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea |
Australasia |
Mangroves |
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Queensland tropical rain forests |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Solomon Islands rain forests |
Solomon Islands |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Southeastern Papuan rain forests |
Papua New Guinea |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests |
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests |
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sulawesi lowland rain forests |
Indonesia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sumba deciduous forests |
Indonesia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Timor and Wetar deciduous forests |
East Timor, Indonesia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Trans Fly savanna and grasslands |
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 4Marchant, S.; Higgins, PJ (eds.) 1993. The handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds, Vol. 2., raptors to lapwings. Oxford University Press, Melbourne ♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 7International Flea DatabaseEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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