Blue-breasted quail (Synoicus chinensis)

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Observations

🔍 No documented observation

Description

Classification: Genus Synoicus (Synoicus); Subfamily Phasianinae (Phasianinae); Family Turkeys (Phasianidae)
Geography: This bird appears across the great seas in the following continents: North America, Asia.
General: 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 southeastern Asia to Oceania with 10 different subspecies. 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. [more]