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Painted Button-quail broken wing display?

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Subject: Painted Button-quail broken wing display?
From: "Robert Inglis" <>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:59:13 +1000
Hi Tom,

You ask: "Where did you find reference to buttonquails being 'Shorebirds'?"

It's quite simple.
The family "Turnicidae" which contains the button-quail is now included in the order "Charadriiformes".
Ergo, button-quail are 'shorebirds.......as are skuas, jaegers, noddies, terns 
and gulls.

Using the same novel way of thinking all Passeriformes can be called 'crows'.

Cheers

Bob Inglis
Sandstone Point
Qld
Australia
http://users.tpg.com.au/inglisrc/






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