button quail, buttonquail, bustard quail, hemipode

small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and North Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains

• striped button quail, Turnix sylvatica — a variety of button quail having stripes

• wading bird, wader — any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food

• Turnix, genus Turnix — type genus of the Turnicidae: button quail