Snow Mountain Quail - Anurophasis monorthonyx
( van Oort, 1910 )

 

 

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Subspecies: Unknown
Est. World Population: U

CITES Status: NOT LISTED
IUCN Status: Least Concern
U.S. ESA Status: NOT LISTED

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Jumping Ability: (Horizontal)

Life Span: in the Wild
Life Span: in Captivity

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Habitat:
It inhabits high grassland plateaux and the edge of heavy alpine scrub with trees, between c.3,200 and 4,200 m.


Range:
The species is endemic to Papua, Indonesia, where it is recorded in alpine grasslands and shrublands of the high plateaus north of the summits of the Western Range and the western sector (at least) of the Border Range (Beehler and Pratt 2016).


Conservation:
Conservation Actions Underway
None is known.

Conservation Actions Proposed
Survey to assess the species' population size.


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