- Brown Quail
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Brown Quail 
Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Galliformes Family: Phasianidae Subfamily: Perdicinae Genus: Coturnix Species: C. ypsilophora Binomial name Coturnix ypsilophora
Bosc, 1792The Brown Quail (Coturnix ypsilophora), also known as Swamp Quail, is an Australasian true quail of the family Phasianidae.
The Brown Quail is distributed in agricultural areas, wet grasslands, shrublands and freshwater wetlands across much of New Guinea and the Lesser Sunda Islands as well as in northern, eastern, south-eastern and south-western Australia and Tasmania, though absent from arid regions. This species has been introduced to Fiji and New Zealand.
Widespread and common throughout its large range, the Brown Quail is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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References
- BirdLife International (2004). Coturnix ypsilophora. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 26 November 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
- Marchant, S.; & Higgins, P.J. (Eds). (1993). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. Volume 2: Raptors to Lapwings. Oxford University Press: Melbourne. ISBN 0-19-553069-1
External links
Categories:- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Coturnix
- Birds of South Australia
- Birds of Western Australia
- Birds of Southeast Asia
- Birds of New Guinea
- Birds of Indonesia
- Birds of Papua New Guinea
- Birds of Tasmania
- Galliformes stubs
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