I am hoping that someone out there can help Erik (based in Sweden) either by providing photographs of Buff-breasted Button-quail or by directing us to someone they know who has one or more.
Mike Carter 30 Canadian Bay Road Mount Eliza VIC 3930 Tel (03) 9787 7136
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Alternatively, you could get a stealth version of the new hover drones, fit it with a lipstick video camera and transmitter and have it scan the area you are searching and review the footage back at camp over a coldy.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
So the moral of the story is to take lots of pix of the ground in likely areas and hope you can find a bird lurking in one of the frames …
Regards, Laurie.
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So the moral of the story is to take lots of pix of the ground in likely areas and hope you can find a bird lurking in one of the frames …
Regards, Laurie.
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Like Richard I recall only too well searching for several days (with Pete Milburn) over the hill slopes around Julatten (about 10 years ago from memory) flushing Painted, more Painted and then Brown Quail followed by more Painted until finally we began to flush a few Buff-breasted. Being so large they were relatively easy to identify. For a while we began to doubt they existed at all in the area.
Interestingly, each of the birds that we saw were flushed from rocky areas at the base of the slopes, it appearing as though they had a little niche to themselves at the base of hill slopes and like Richard said were not seen until they were flushed.
Cheers, Tony
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Hello all, Several years ago, Michael Hunter and I searched several hillside areas on the western edge of the Atherton Tablelands after waiting for the right conditions to occur.
After a couple of days of walking hillsides in oppressive heat we flushed two Buff-breasted Button Quail late in the afternoon. In fading light, we flushed another bird, which landed in a open area covered in cream coloured, button quail sized rocks. We decided not to walk through the area but instead return at first light for further views and maybe photos.
The following morning we positioned ourselves on a rocky outcrop only 20-30m from the clearing and waited for over an hour for some movement in the area. During that hour I scanned that small open area countless times. I individually checked every rock in that small clearing and there was no grass or other plants for the bird to hide behind.
After convincing ourselves the bird had moved to elsewhere during the night, we climbed down and walked towards the rocky clearing. Halfway across, the BBBQ flushed from under our feet. It had been sitting in the middle of the clearing the entire time!
They’re virtually impossible to see in a landscape of rocks the same colour, size and shape as they are!
Good luck.
Cheers Richard Baxter
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Looking at the latest SOI figures, it looks like you may just be getting one. Good luck on the hunt.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
Let’s hope for a long dry !
Cheers
Martin Cachard Cairns
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Andrew, I heartily agree with you on the size of the females – they ARE huge & this is what struck me the most when I saw my pair!
Painteds up here are a little smaller (about the size of a female Black BBQ) than they are further south , but I would still say that the female Buff BBQ I saw was easily the biggest BQ I’ve ever seen – by quite a long way….
I’ve seen heaps of southern female Painted BQ’s too & they are still much smaller…
Let’s hope for a long dry !
Cheers
Martin Cachard Cairns
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I’m pretty sure myself and Peter Lansley were the last observers to definitely see Buff-breasted BQs near Mt Molloy in early 2007. I was speaking to Lloyd Neilsen about this at the time and he told me it was his aim to try to take a photograph of one, as this had never been achieved before. If Lloyd is reading this he can confirm.
At the time of the sighting (late January) FNQ was on the cusp of its first genuine wet season in roughly seven years. So the habitat had been very dry, but daily heavy showers at the time were stimulating new growth. So, early in the wet (before it gets too dense) seems to be the best time. The habitat was around the base of low rocky hills – the birds took shelter higher up when flushed. My “technique”, such as it was, was to freeze if I flushed one bird, and to scan the ground closely for its partner which, over three days of observations, was always nearby. However, I was never able to view the bird on the deck for more than a couple of seconds before it was up and out.
There are Painted BQs in the area too, and care needs to be taken with ID. Don’t assume any BQ is the one you’re after! Among other pointers, a female Buff-breasted BQ is comparatively huge – the first time I flushed one it was more like putting up a bronzewing!
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G’day all
Yes, you guys are all right in thinking there are still no images taken of live Buff BBQ out there… Paul, it’s no urban myth !!
We’ve got to find the birds first of course, which hopefully will be fruitful after a couple of good dry seasons up here…
I’ve only ever seen a pair once & lately in last 3 years there have been no sightings at all by ant one …… but a few of us up here have a theory on where they may be hiding….
Wish us luck !!
Cheers
Martin Cachard Cairns 0428 782 808
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That was my understanding too, Chris. According to the Qld Department of Environment and Resource Management publication, “National recovery plan for the Buff-breasted Button-quail Turnix olivii”: “Despite considerable search effort, the lack of knowledge regarding the buff-breasted button-quail is substantial (e.g. there are no photographs of living specimens)” – http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/recovery/ pubs/turnix-olivii.pdf
I must admit that I had though this to be almost an urban (or at least a birding) myth!
It strikes me that to get the first photo of a living Buff-breasted Button-quail should almost be the holy grail of bird photography in Australia! I suppose that a photo of a Night Parrot would REALLY be the holy grail, though…
Paul Dodd Docklands, Victoria
Hi Mike,
As far as I was aware this species has never been photographed? If you know differently please let us all know! Or are they after photos of a skin from one of the museums?
Regards, Chris
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