Buttonquails (Turnicidae)
Yellow-legged Buttonquail (Turnix tanki) - HBW 3, p. 54
French: Turnix indien
German: Rotnacken-Laufhühnchen
Spanish: Torillo Tanki
Taxonomy: Turnix tanki Blyth, 1843, Bengal.
May be closely related to T. maculosa, although this proposal has not been widely accepted. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- tanki Blyth, 1843 - Indian Subcontinent, Andaman and Nicobar Is.
- blanfordii Blyth, 1863 - Myanmar through Indochina to E China, breeding N to Korea and extreme SE of Soviet Far East (S Amurland and Ussuriland).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Yellow-legged Buttonquail, migrant, Beidiahe, China.
Locality Hebei, China (Northern)
Mark Andrews 15 May 2006 3 years ago 2.7
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