Turnix suscitator
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
The barred buttonquail or common bustard-quail (Turnix suscitator) is a species of buttonquail, one of a small family (Turnicidae) of birds which resemble, but are not closely related to, the true quails. This species is resident from India across tropical Asia to south China, Indonesia and the Philippines.
The barred buttonquail was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the grouse like birds in the genus Tetrao and coined the binomial name Tetrao suscitator. Gmelin cited the English ornithologist Francis Willughby who in 1678 had described and illustrated the "Indian Quail of Brontius" from the Island of Java. The barred buttonquail is now placed in the genus Turnix that was introduced in 1791 by French naturalist in Pierre Bonnaterre. The genus name is an abbreviation of the genus Coturnix. The specific epithet suscitator is Latin and means "awakening".
Sixteen subspecies are recognised. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Udawalawe National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 2 | Yala National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 3 | Bali Barat National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 4 | Way Kambas National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 5 | Wilpattu National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 6 | Ranthambore National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Manas National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Gir National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Bandhavgarh National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Keoladeo National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 11 | Mudumalai National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 12 | Satpura National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 13 | Jim Corbett National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 14 | Minneriya National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 15 | Bandipur National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 16 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 17 | Taman Negara National Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 18 | Cat Tien National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 19 | Nagarhole National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 20 | Tangkoko Nature Reserve | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 21 | Doi Inthanon National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 22 | Chitwan National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 23 | Royal Manas National Park | 🇧🇹 Bhutan | |
| 24 | Kanha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 25 | Kaziranga National Park | 🇮🇳 India |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rajkot | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Phnom Penh | 🇰🇭 Cambodia | |
| 3 | Nashik | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Indore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Vasai-Virar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Jakarta | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 7 | Denpasar | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 8 | Jaipur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Pune | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Kuala Lumpur | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Barred Buttonquail sighting in Vasai-Virar on a given day, based on 84 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 124th most-seen of the 217 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February, April–May and July–September
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Barred Buttonquail in Vasai-Virar on a given day, against under 5% in March, June and October–January, the lowest months. Those are among Vasai-Virar's wettest months, with about 310 mm of rain a month against almost none in January.
Between 4 and 7 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Barred Buttonquail sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
5th of 24
Of the 24 cities where we can rate Barred Buttonquail sightings, Vasai-Virar ranks 5th at under 5%. The best odds are in Rajkot (India, about 10%), Phnom Penh (Cambodia, about 10%) and Nashik (India, under 5%).
Same order: Charadriiformes
The closest relatives of the Barred Buttonquail that you can see in Vasai-Virar (order Charadriiformes, Shorebirds and Allies) are Red-wattled Lapwing (about 50%), Common Sandpiper (about 40%) and Wood Sandpiper (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Barred Buttonquail is recorded against all the birds logged in Vasai-Virar (84 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
