THE DIRE STATE OF THE BUFF-BREASTED BUTTON-QUAIL: WHERE TO FROM HERE?
Wed, 27 Apr
|Cominos House
Join us for a BirdLife Club Talk by Patrick Webster where he will share the history and current status of the Buff-breasted Button-quail.
Time and location
27 Apr 2022, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm AEST
Cominos House, 27 Greenslopes St, Edge Hill QLD 4870, Australia
About the event
BirdLife Club Talk in Cairns
THE DIRE STATE OF THE BUFF-BREASTED BUTTON-QUAIL: WHERE TO FROM HERE?
By guest speaker Patrick Webster
Cominos House Meeting Room
27 Greenslopes St, Edge Hill QLD 4870
Australia supports the greatest diversity and endemism of button-quail of any country in the world. Button-quail are notoriously shy and cryptic, and as a result very little is known of their ecology. The least known is the Buff-breasted Button-quail. This species is thought to be an inhabitant of north Queensland, though the finer details of its ecology remain largely a mystery. For the past four years the PhD candidate Patrick Webster from the RARES lab, University of Queensland, has been studying the Buff-breasted Button-quail. What has been uncovered during this project is extremely concerning.