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Yellow-legged buttonquail

Turnix tanki Blyth, 1843

LCLeast Concernbirds

The yellow-legged buttonquail (Turnix tanki) is a species in the family Turnicidae, order Charadriiformes. Recorded adults weigh 46.6 g to 61.3 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Yellow-legged buttonquail (Turnix tanki)
Photo: Dr. Raju Kasambe · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the yellow-legged buttonquail

Weight
46.6 g – 61.3 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Granivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
grasslandsrc for Habitat
Egg incubation
12 dayssrc for Egg incubation
Young per litter or clutch
4src 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 yellow-legged buttonquail live?

Not recorded

What is the yellow-legged buttonquail?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The yellow-legged buttonquail (Turnix tanki) is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails. This family is peculiar in that the females are larger and more colourful than the males and are polyandrous.

From the Wikipedia article “Yellow-legged buttonquail” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yellow-legged_buttonquail&oldid=1359015335), 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 yellow-legged buttonquail endangered?

The yellow-legged 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 yellow-legged buttonquail classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderCharadriiformes
  5. familyTurnicidae
  6. genusTurnix
  7. SpeciesTurnix tanki Blyth, 1843

Synonyms Hemipodius nigrifrons

Other names and names in other languages (36)
  • سمان ذو النقرة في الذقن أصفر الساقArabic
  • guatlla pintada camagrogaCatalan
  • perepel žlutonohýCzech
  • corsofliar goesfelenWelsh
  • Gulbenet LøbehøneDanish
  • RotnackenlaufhühnchenGerman
  • Rotnacken-LaufhühnchenGerman
  • flavkrura turnicoEsperanto
  • Torillo tankiSpanish
  • nurmledikEstonian
  • ketopyyjuoksijaFinnish
  • Turnix indienFrench
  • žutonoga trkušaCroatian
  • usszuri guvatfürjHungarian
  • Quaglia tridattila zampegialleItalian
  • チョウセンミフウズラJapanese
  • 세가락메추라기Korean
  • geltonkojė tripirštėLithuanian
  • rudkakla trīspirkstīteLatvian
  • മഞ്ഞക്കാലിക്കാടMalayalam
  • Chinese VechtkwartelDutch
  • orientspringvaktelNorwegian
  • przepiórnik żółtonogiPolish
  • toirão-de-patas-amarelasPortuguese
  • toirão-de-pernas-amarelasPortuguese
  • Пятнистая трёхперсткаRussian
  • Пятнистая трёхпёрсткаRussian
  • prepeľovec žltonohýSlovak
  • Žutonoga prepeličicaSerbian
  • gulbent springhönaSwedish
  • Gulfotad springhönaSwedish
  • นกคุ่มอืดใหญ่Thai
  • Hint BıldırcınyelvesiTurkish
  • триперстка жовтоногаUkrainian
  • 黃腳三趾鶉Chinese
  • 黄脚三趾鹑Chinese

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Relatives of the yellow-legged buttonquail

Other species in the same genus Turnix.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the yellow-legged buttonquail?

An adult yellow-legged buttonquail weighs 46.6 g – 61.3 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the yellow-legged buttonquail endangered?

The yellow-legged 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 yellow-legged buttonquail?

The yellow-legged buttonquail (Turnix tanki) belongs to the family Turnicidae in the order Charadriiformes.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Yellow-legged buttonquail (Turnix tanki). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/yellow-legged-buttonquail

MLA

“Yellow-legged buttonquail (Turnix tanki).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/yellow-legged-buttonquail.

BibTeX
@misc{yellow_legged_buttonquail_2026,
  title = {Yellow-legged buttonquail (Turnix tanki)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/yellow-legged-buttonquail},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}