Recently I’ve been hearing a buttonquail (turnix species) calling from long-grass on the roadside near my residence, I’ve managed to get a few audio-recordings but no results on the camera-trap. I have had very brief views which suggested a rather large dark-brown bird, but there are also numerous Brown Quail (Coturnix ypsilophora) present here too. So far the general-consensus seems to be Red-backed Buttonquail (Turnix maculosa) but I’m not convinced by the poor-views that I’ve had.
Please note that the RBBQ ‘featured-image’ is not the bird from the recordings and was taken (and donated) by John Weigel 9 years ago near Gold’s Scrub, Samsonvale.
I’ve also posted this question on the forum at Xeno-Canto.
The first audio-file was from a Sony PCM D100 hand-held recorder (27 December 2021).
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