Buttonquail or Hemipode SPECIES SPOTLIGHT
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The buttonquails or hemipodes are a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, true quails. They inhabit warm grasslands in Asia, Africa, and Australia.
Buttonquail Biology
Buttonquails are small, drab, running birds, which avoid flying. The female is the more brightly coloured of the sexes, and initiates courtship. Unusually, the buttonquails are polyandrous, with the females circulating among several males and expelling rival females from her territory. Both sexes cooperate in building a nest in the earth, but only the male incubates the eggs and tends the young. The eggs hatch after an incubation period of 12 or 13 days, and the young are able to fly within two weeks of hatching.
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