Editing Buttonquail (section)

{{short description|Family of birds}}
{{Redirect|Button quail|the species of true quail often known as button quail in aviculture|king quail}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Buttonquail
| image = Black-breasted Button-quail male inskip.JPG
| image_caption = [[Black-breasted buttonquail]] (''Turnix melanogaster'')
| taxon = Turnicidae
| authority = [[George Robert Gray|Gray, GR]], 1840
| type_species = ''[[Common buttonquail|Tetrao gibraltaricus]]''<ref name=HM4>{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=63 |title= Alcidae |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-26}}</ref>
| type_species_authority = Gmelin, 1788
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = {{linked genus list
| Turnix | [[Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre|Bonnaterre]], 1791
| Ortyxelos | [[Louis Pierre Vieillot|Vieillot]], 1825 }}
| range_map = Turnicidae rangmap.PNG
| range_map_caption = Distribution of the buttonquails
}}

'''Buttonquail''' or '''hemipodes''' are members of a small family of [[bird]]s, '''Turnicidae''', which resemble, but are not closely related to, the [[coturnix|quail]]s of [[Phasianidae]]. They inhabit warm [[grassland]]s in [[Asia]], [[Africa]], [[Europe]], and [[Australia]]. There are 18 species in two genera, with most species placed in the genus ''[[Turnix]]'' and a single species in the genus ''[[Quail-plover|Ortyxelos]]''.

Buttonquails are small, drab, running birds, which avoid flying. The female is the more richly colored of the sexes. While the quail-plover is thought to be [[Monogamy|monogamous]], ''Turnix'' buttonquails are sequentially [[polyandry in animals|polyandrous]]: both sexes cooperate in building a nest in the earth, but normally only the male [[Avian incubation|incubates]] the eggs and tends the young, while the female may go on to mate with other males.