Quail-plover
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| Quail-plover | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Turnicidae |
| Genus: | Ortyxelos Vieillot, 1825 |
| Species: | O. meiffrenii |
| Binomial name | |
| Ortyxelos meiffrenii (Vieillot, 1819) |
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The Lark Buttonquail or Quail-plover (Ortyxelos meiffrenii) is a species of bird in the Turnicidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Ortyxelos.[citation needed] It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.
[edit] References
- BirdLife International 2004. Ortyxelos meiffrenii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.
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