free web hosting | free website | Business Hosting Services | Free Website Submission | shopping cart | Coaching Institute | php hosting
affordable web hosting Pets web page hosting web hosting website hosting web hosting service web hosting best web hosting
Worcester's Button Quail Turnix worcesteri
Common Names:  Pugo                     
Discoverer:  McGregor                                       
Category: RARE
Status: Endemic  
Habitat/Distribution: Grasslands in Luzon
Habitat / Behavior: very secretive and elusive
Threats: Heavily Hunted
Conservation Efforts/Measures:

Photograph Information: Courtesy of the Babilonia Wilner Foundation Illustrations by George Sandstrom and John R. Pierce, taken from the book "Philippine Birds" by John duPont [left]. Courtesy of  the Oxford University Press. Drawing done by A.P.Sutherland taken from "A Guide to the Birds of the Philippines" by Dr. Robert Kennedy et al [right].

Worcester's Button Quail

This website is designed and maintained by Pia Belardo .
Graphic images concept from Pia Belardo . Since 04.03.1996 Updated 04.30.2001
© Copyright 1996 - 2001 EESP. All rights reserved.