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Barred buttonquail

Turnix suscitator (J. F. Gmelin, 1789)

LCLeast Concernbirds

The barred buttonquail (Turnix suscitator) is a species in the family Turnicidae, order Charadriiformes. Recorded adults weigh 44 g to 58 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Barred buttonquail (Turnix suscitator)
Photo: Tisha Mukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the barred buttonquail

Weight
44 g – 58 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Omnivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
grasslandsrc for Habitat
Egg incubation
14.5 dayssrc for Egg incubation
Young per litter or clutch
4.1 – 4.2src for Young per litter or clutch
Lifestyle
Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the barred buttonquail live?

Not recorded

What is the barred buttonquail?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

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.

From the Wikipedia article “Barred buttonquail” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barred_buttonquail&oldid=1374256344), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the barred buttonquail endangered?

The barred buttonquail is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species.

How is the barred buttonquail classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderCharadriiformes
  5. familyTurnicidae
  6. genusTurnix
  7. SpeciesTurnix suscitator (J. F. Gmelin, 1789)
Other names and names in other languages (36)
  • سمان ذو النقرة في الذقن المخطط،Arabic
  • নাগরবাটইBangla
  • guatlla pintada batallaireCatalan
  • perepel šupinkovýCzech
  • corsofliar resogWelsh
  • KampløbehøneDanish
  • BindenlaufhühnchenGerman
  • stria turnicoEsperanto
  • Torillo batalladorSpanish
  • vöötledikEstonian
  • tummapyyjuoksijaFinnish
  • Turnix combattantFrench
  • prugasta trkušaCroatian
  • csíkos guvatfürjHungarian
  • Gemak lorengIndonesian
  • Quaglia tridattila barrataItalian
  • ミフウズラJapanese
  • dryžoji tripirštėLithuanian
  • svītrainā trīspirkstīteLatvian
  • പാഞ്ചാലിക്കാടMalayalam
  • पट्टेरी बटलावाMarathi
  • ZwartkeelvechtkwartelDutch
  • båndspringvaktelNorwegian
  • przepiórnik prążkowanyPolish
  • toirão-barradoPortuguese
  • Полосатая трёхперсткаRussian
  • Полосатая трёхпёрсткаRussian
  • prepeľovec sivozobýSlovak
  • Prugasta prepeličicaSerbian
  • bandad springhönaSwedish
  • வரி மார்பு கருங்காடைTamil
  • นกคุ่มอกลายThai
  • Karaca BıldırcınyelvesiTurkish
  • триперстка смугастаUkrainian
  • 棕三趾鶉Chinese
  • 棕三趾鹑Chinese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the barred buttonquail

Other species in the same genus Turnix.

CompareBarred buttonquail vs Common buttonquailBarred buttonquail vs Yellow-legged buttonquailBarred buttonquail vs Madagascar buttonquailBarred buttonquail vs Black-breasted buttonquail

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the barred buttonquail?

An adult barred buttonquail weighs 44 g – 58 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the barred buttonquail endangered?

The barred buttonquail is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the barred buttonquail?

The barred buttonquail (Turnix suscitator) belongs to the family Turnicidae in the order Charadriiformes.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Barred buttonquail (Turnix suscitator). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/barred-buttonquail

MLA

“Barred buttonquail (Turnix suscitator).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/barred-buttonquail.

BibTeX
@misc{barred_buttonquail_2026,
  title = {Barred buttonquail (Turnix suscitator)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/barred-buttonquail},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}