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Buffy-crowned Wood-Partridge
Dendrortyx leucophrys
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About the Buffy-crowned Wood-Partridge
The buffy-crowned wood partridge (Dendrortyx leucophrys) is a bird species in the family Odontophoridae, the New World quail. It is found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
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Classification
- Scientific name
- Dendrortyx leucophrys
- Family
- New World Quail
- Order
- Galliformes
Similar species
Other members of the new world quail family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Banded Quail Philortyx fasciatus
- Bearded Wood-Partridge Dendrortyx barbatus
- Black-throated Bobwhite Colinus nigrogularis
- California Quail Callipepla californica
- Elegant Quail Callipepla douglasii
- Gambel's Quail Callipepla gambelii
- Long-tailed Wood-Partridge Dendrortyx macroura
- Montezuma Quail Cyrtonyx montezumae
- Mountain Quail Oreortyx pictus
- Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
- Ocellated Quail Cyrtonyx ocellatus
- Scaled Quail Callipepla squamata
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