Plains-wanderer

Plains-wanderer
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Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Aequorlitornithes
Order:	Charadriiformes
Suborder:	Limicoli
Family:	Pedionomidae; Bonaparte, 1856
Genus:	Pedionomus; Gould, 1841
Species:	P. torquatus
Binomial name
	Pedionomus torquatus; Gould, 1841

Plains-wanderer, Pedionomus torquatus is a species of bird in the Limicoli suborder, and the only bird in the genus Pedionomus and the bird family Pedionomidae. It is endemic to Australia. Despite looking like a buttonquail, it is classed in Limicoli while the buttonquails have their own suborder, Turnici. Both families were once classed in Gruiformes.^[2]

Description[]

Plains-wanderers are similar to buttonquails but lankier, they look deceptively like a gamebird, with a compact body, small head, and well-developed legs;^[2] but, unlike buttonquails, they have a hind toe.^[3] Their plumage is soft and their wings are rounded and soft.^[3] Bill long and thin, with long, narrow nasal apertures.^[3] Their irides are faint yellow.^[3] Legs and feet are yellow to greenish yellow; toes long, hind toe short and prominent.^[3]

Males are buff and white with no obvious collar.^[3] Females are larger, darker; face and chin have sandy-red feathers, with fine black lines; chestnut collar patch; collar chequered black and white, small crescents on breast and upper abdomen.^[3]

Similar species[]

Stubble Quail

Brown Quail

Plains-wanderer's legs are longer than a buttonquail's.^[3]

Behaviour[]

Runs "crouched", may spread wings; stands erect, crouches motionless; seldom flies.^[3]

Diet[]

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Reproduction[]

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References[]

^ "Pedionomus torquatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
^ ^a ^b Don E. Wilson (Author), David Burnie (Author) (2001). Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife. Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 0789477645.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Simpson & Day (2010). A Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, 8th Edition. Penguin Ltd. and Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691146928.

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Projects

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[1] "Pedionomus torquatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.

[Animalbook-2] Don E. Wilson (Author), David Burnie (Author) (2001). Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife. Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 0789477645.

[AEE-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Simpson & Day (2010). A Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, 8th Edition. Penguin Ltd. and Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691146928.

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