Black-breasted Button-Quail breeding record - Toowoomba

There are are only TWO known locations within the local survey area: Redwood Park on the eastern escarpment, and in a patch of remnant dry vine scrub at "Birdwood Sanctuary" just west of Gowrie Junction. Both populations are vulnerable, particularly the latter, as the vine scrub flanks a plateau on which a significant rural residential development is imminent. Fifteen of the 54 acre blocks border the key buttton-quail habitat, which is located on the southern side of the plateau. The button-quail could certainly do with a conservation-minded philanthropist buying up the lot!

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Black-breasted Button-Quail breeding record - Toowoomba

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Found this interesting account of breeding records by naturalist John Young, which includes Oct 1985 observations in Redwood Park, Toowoomba.

.://..publish.csiro.au/?act=view_f ... 960202.pdf

The birds in Redwood Park are notoriously hard to find, which makes this breeding record all the more significant.

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Michael Atzeni
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