PBQ in the GBS

["Harvey Perkins" <>]

The first Painted Button-quail I ever saw in the ACT was one that Phil Hansbro found in the (virtually enclosed) courtyard at the Research School of Biological Sciences (RSBS) at ANU back in 1995. We took it to the bottom of Mt Majura and released it there. So clearly they move about under certain circumstances, probably at night, and sometimes end up in unexpected places.

 

Harvey

 

On 03/12/2007, martin butterfield <> wrote:

Sorry, that's the second report.  I had one under our chookhouse last year!  However, I am most impressed by a PBQ in Florey!  Was it  male or a female?

 

Interestingly our bird was initially spotted by my wife.  Is there some obscure sex-linkage going on here?

 

Martin

 

On Dec 3, 2007 9:48 AM, John Brannan <m("netspeed.com.au","john.brannan");" target="_blank">> wrote:

My eagle-eyed wife spotted what she thought was a quail foraging under the azaleas outside our bedroom window this morning.  Mad scramble for binos followed, the forager turning out to be a solitary Painted Button-quail. The last time I saw one of those it was on Mt Ainslie, so I'm at a loss to explain how one has ended up in a garden in Florey.
According to Philip's GBS report, there had been no records of PBQs in the Garden Bird Survey at the time the report was published. Well, now there's one.

John Brannan

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