Painted Buttonquail
Turnix varius
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Turnicidae
- Genus
- Turnix
- eBird Code
- paibut
Subspecies (2)
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Turnix varius scintillans
East and West Wallabi islands; formerly North Island (Houtman Abrolhos Islands off southwestern Australia)
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Turnix varius varius
southwestern and eastern Australia (Cape York Peninsula, northern Queensland southward to southern South Australia and Tasmania)
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.