....mmmm, Shorely not Chris!
Where did you find reference to buttonquails being 'Shorebirds'?
Tom
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Chris Sanderson
<>wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> I encountered a Painted Button-Quail nest a couple of years ago and the
> female flushed off the nest at about 10m distance but didn't make a broken
> wing display. That isn't to say they never do (after all, they are
> shorebirds!) but my only experience so far is that they haven't. The nest
> had eggs (3 from memory, but it was a while ago).
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Brian Hawkins <>
> wrote:
>
> > G'day all,
> >
> > has anyone ever seen or heard of a Painted Button-quail pretending it has
> a
> > broken wing to distract an observer from nearby eggs or chicks? I saw
> one
> > acting this way today (could not see any nest or chicks nearby though)
> and
> > was wondering whether the bird might actually have had a broken wing - it
> > seemed to.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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