New Caledonian buttonquail

Short description: Species of bird

New Caledonian buttonquail

Conservation status

Critically endangered, possibly extinct (IUCN 3.1)

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Aves
Order:  | Charadriiformes
Family:  | Turnicidae
Genus:  | Turnix
Species:  |

T. novaecaledoniae

Binomial name
Turnix novaecaledoniae

Ogilvie-Grant, 1889

The New Caledonia buttonquail (Turnix novaecaledoniae) is a species of bird in the family Turnicidae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. It previously was considered a subspecies of the painted buttonquail.

Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.

## References

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