Male King Quail (Coturnix chinesis) forages the forest floor for a meal at a Nature conservancy in Port Douglas, Queensland in Australia.
The king quail (Synoicus chinensis), also known as the blue-breasted quail, Asian blue quail, Chinese painted quail, or Chung-Chi, is a species of Old World quail in the family Phasianidae. This species is the smallest "true quail", ranging in the wild from Southern China, South and south-eastern Asia to Oceania, up to South-eastern Australia with 9 different sub-species. A failed attempt was made to introduce this species to New Zealand by the Otago Acclimatisation Society in the late 1890s. It is quite common in aviculture worldwide, where it is sometimes misleadingly known as the "button quail", which is the name of an only very distantly related family of birds, the buttonquails.
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Location: Port Douglas, Far North Queensland, Queensland, Australia
Photo credit: © Photography By Marco / Alamy / Afripics
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