Red-backed Buttonquail

Scientific Name: Turnix maculosus

Red-backed Buttonquail Fact File

Distribution: Sulawesi and New Guinea to northern Australia

Conservation Status: Least Concern

Subspecies: Fourteen

• T. m. kinneari: Peleng Island (east of Sulawesi)
• T. m. beccarii: Sulawesi; Muna and Tomia Islands (Tukangbesi Island)
• T. m. obiensis: Kai Island; and Babar Island (Indonesia)
• T. m. sumbanus: Sumba Island (Lesser Sundas)
• T. m. floresianus: Sumbawa, Komodo, Padar, Flores and Alor (Lesser Sundas)
• T. m. maculosus: Roti, Semau, Timor, Wetar, Moa and Kisar (Lesser Sundas)
• T. m. savuensis: Sawu Island (Lesser Sundas)
• T. m. saturatus: New Britain and Duke of York Island (Bismarck Archipelago)
• T. m. furvus: Huon Peninsula (north-eastern New Guinea)
• T. m. giluwensis: Central New Guinea
• T. m. horsbrughi: Southern New Guinea
• T. m. mayri: Louisiade Archipelago (New Guinea)
• T. m. salomonis: Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)
• T. m. melanotus: Northern and eastern Australia

Current conservation efforts

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