These videos are all from one of the new cameras in our Old Kangaroo Exclusion Area. All these visits are from September 2023 to April 2024.
According to HANZAB, little is known about Painted Button-quails in the wild. They are said to be mainly nocturnal or crepuscular, resting during the day in family parties or small coveys. The Birdlife Australia website says Painted Button-quail are active during the evening, night and early morning, feeding on the ground. Our cameras pick up any movement day and night and we have graphed the data from June to December 2023. There were 511 visits during this time and we did not find any night time visits at all. There were many videos of night creatures like Brush-tailed Phascogales, Antechinus and Wallabies.
There were 69 visits between 7 and 8am and 56 visits between 11am and 12noon and 62 between 5 and 6pm. The rest of the visits were spread pretty evenly between 6am and 4pm with an average of 34.2 for each of these hours. There were only 16 visits between 6pm and 8pm and they were in September and later when it is light at this time. If 2 birds visit during the same hour this is counted as 2 visits regardless of whether they visit together, at the one area, or at 2 different areas.
For all these visits there were platelets left showing the birds had been feeding. There were almost no cases where there were platelets but no videos of Painted Button-quails, except rare times where the cards were full or batteries ran out.
In all the videos captured, the Painted Button-quails are feeding by going around in circles and only stay still or walk through on a couple of occasions.
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