Birds · Not heard for 31 days.

Stylised portrait of a Brown Quail

Brown Quail

Synoicus ypsilophorus

First heard here 6 Oct · last heard 6 Oct · 1 day in the last year · 1 detections on record

Hear it

A clear recording song, recorded in Australia

Marc Anderson, xeno-canto, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Trimmed to 20 seconds.

What to look for

The brown quail, also known as the swamp quail, silver quail and Tasmanian quail, is an Australasian true quail of the family Phasianidae. It is a small, ground-dwelling bird and is native to mainland Australia, Tasmania and Papua New Guinea and has been introduced to New Zealand and Fiji. Widespread and common throughout its large range, the brown quail is evaluated as being of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Read more on Wikipedia (Brown quail)

Photograph of a Brown Quail
Photo: JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

When it has been heard

Detections per day, last 30 days. Heard on 0 of them.
018 Oct: 0 detections9 Oct: 0 detections10 Oct: 0 detections11 Oct: 0 detections12 Oct: 0 detections13 Oct: 0 detections14 Oct: 0 detections15 Oct: 0 detections16 Oct: 0 detections17 Oct: 0 detections18 Oct: 0 detections19 Oct: 0 detections20 Oct: 0 detections21 Oct: 0 detections22 Oct: 0 detections23 Oct: 0 detections24 Oct: 0 detections25 Oct: 0 detections26 Oct: 0 detections27 Oct: 0 detections28 Oct: 0 detections29 Oct: 0 detections30 Oct: 0 detections31 Oct: 0 detections1 Nov: 0 detections2 Nov: 0 detections3 Nov: 0 detections4 Nov: 0 detections5 Nov: 0 detections6 Nov: 0 detections8 Oct23 Oct6 Nov018 Oct: 0 detections9 Oct: 0 detections10 Oct: 0 detections11 Oct: 0 detections12 Oct: 0 detections13 Oct: 0 detections14 Oct: 0 detections15 Oct: 0 detections16 Oct: 0 detections17 Oct: 0 detections18 Oct: 0 detections19 Oct: 0 detections20 Oct: 0 detections21 Oct: 0 detections22 Oct: 0 detections23 Oct: 0 detections24 Oct: 0 detections25 Oct: 0 detections26 Oct: 0 detections27 Oct: 0 detections28 Oct: 0 detections29 Oct: 0 detections30 Oct: 0 detections31 Oct: 0 detections1 Nov: 0 detections2 Nov: 0 detections3 Nov: 0 detections4 Nov: 0 detections5 Nov: 0 detections6 Nov: 0 detections8 Oct23 Oct6 Nov

Busiest day so far: Tuesday 6 October, 1 detections between 7:10am and 7:10am.

Time of day

When it calls, last 30 days. Darker is busier.

Busiest around 7am. From 1 day with hourly counts.

DayHeardFirstLastPeak confidence
6 Oct17:10am7:10am78%

Detections are automatic and can be wrong.