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| Ortyxelos meiffrenii |
(Vieillot, 1819) |
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Family: buttonquails |
Order: Gruiformes |
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Lark buttonquail |
Turnix à ailes blanches |
Torillo alaudino |
Lerchenlaufhühnchen |
| Migration: intracontinental |
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Poorly understood. Resident in some areas, elsewhere intra-African migrant, with some birds apparently
breeding on coast in cool dry season; variously present only wet season or only in dry season in some parts of
range. Resident in E (Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya) and possibly parts of W Africa; breeding visitor to S
Ghana. (del Hoyo J, Elliott A, Sargatal J (eds), 1996)
- digitised by GROMS, after del Hoyo J A Elliott; J Sargatal (eds) (1996) - www.hbw.com,
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(A digitised version of this map is published in GIS shape format on the GROMS CD).
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| (Last update: 26.04.04 by E.Heuel) |