ABSTRACT
The Quail Plover frequents open grassy and bushed habitats in the dry North and East, with five of its seven squares below 1000 m and six arid-semiarid. A bird of open and often flooded, short grassland. Its only minor distinctions from the more common and widespread but similarly very shy and skulking Button Quail must render field identification very difficult, and there are only two records. 14 species, mainly in the Oriental and Australasian Regions, with only three in Africa. All of these three are also known from Kenya, but there are breeding records for only one. They are small, shy, retiring and very skulking birds, and the Black-rumped Button Quail and Quail Plover. As with the Francolins, modern disinclination to take specimens results in fewer confirmed identifications.
