Female © Blair Dudeck
Juvenile © Leticia Andino Biologist and Birding Tour Guide
Male and female © Chuck Heikkinen
Male © Blair Dudeck
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Female © Antonio Robles
Male © FELIPE SAN MARTIN
Male © Esteban Matías (birding guide) Sierra de los Cuchumatanes Huehuetenango esteban.matias@hotmail.com +502 53810540
Female © Neil Broekhuizen
Male © Gabriel Utria - Betoma tours
Male © Mark Stackhouse

Zangkwartel Dactylortyx thoracicus

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Identification

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Small, retiring quail of forest understory. Rarely seen, but can be located by listening for noisy rustling in the leaf litter as birds scratch like chickens. Prefers to run away rather than flush. Loud song often reveals its presence, given mainly early and late in the day: first few notes similar to Little Tinamou song, but then breaks into rollicking choruses that can be almost deafening if close by. Male has rusty face and gray body, female colors reversed, with gray face and rusty body.

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