Madagascar Buttonquail
Turnix nigricollis
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Turnicidae
Le Turnix de Madagascar (Turnix nigricollis) est une espèce d'oiseaux charadriiformes de la famille des Turnicidae. Selon la classification de référence du Congrès ornithologique international (version 15. 1, 2025), c'est une espèce monotypique (non subdivisée en sous-espèces).
The Madagascar buttonquail or Madagascan buttonquail (Turnix nigricollis) is a species of bird in the buttonquail family, Turnicidae, that is endemic to Madagascar and a few small islands nearby. It is a ground-dwelling species with an unusual breeding biology in which the sexual dimorphism is reversed, with female being more brightly coloured than the male and it is the male that incubates the eggs and mainly cares for the young. Taxonomy The Madagascar buttonquail was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl…
El torillo malgache (Turnix nigricollis) es una especie de ave caradriforme de la familia Turnicidae endémica de Madagascar. Descripción El torillo malgache mide entre 14 y 16 cm de largo. Presenta un marcado dimorfismo sexual.
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