Copyright: monacoeye • Paz de las Aves, Ecuador • Feb 2011 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: Dark Backed Wood Quail
Latin: Odontophorus melanonotus
Other: Corcovado dorsioscuro (Es)
Family: Odontophoridae • New World Quail
Range: SW Colombia, NW Ecuador
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These beautiful Dark-backed Wood-quail came to feed on worms at the Paz de las Aves ranch in Mindo. It has the simplest pattern of the Andean wood-quails, brown with a rufous orange chest.

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010 Odontophoridae - New World Quail - IOC 2.5 - 2010

Ptilopachus partridges of Africa related to New World quails (Odontophoridae) and guineafowl (Numididae), not Phasianidae

Ptilopachus petrosus - Stone Partridge - W Africa
Ptilopachus nahani - Nahan's Partridge - C Africa - New name

Dendrortyx barbatus - Bearded Wood Partridge - C Mexico
Dendrortyx macroura - Long-tailed Wood Partridge - C Mexico
Dendrortyx leucophrys - Buffy-crowned Wood Partridge - S Mexico to Costa Rica

Oreortyx pictus - Mountain Quail - SW Canada to Baja California

Callipepla squamata - Scaled Quail - SW US, NC Mexico
Callipepla douglasii - Elegant Quail - W Mexico
Callipepla californica - California Quail - SW Canada to Baja California
Callipepla gambelii - Gambel's Quail - SW US, NW Mexico

Philortyx fasciatus - Banded Quail - C Mexico

Colinus virginianus - Northern Bobwhite - EC, SE USA, E Mexico
Colinus nigrogularis - Yucatan Bobwhite - SE Mexico to Honduras
Colinus leucopogon - Spot-bellied Bobwhite - Guatemala to Costa Rica
Colinus cristatus - Crested Bobwhite - Panama through N South America

Odontophorus gujanensis - Marbled Wood Quail - Costa Rica to E Bolivia
Odontophorus capueira - Spot-winged Wood Quail - E, SE South America
Odontophorus melanotis - Black-eared Wood Quail - Honduras to Panama
Odontophorus erythrops - Rufous-fronted Wood Quail - W Colombia, W Ecuador
Odontophorus atrifrons - Black-fronted Wood Quail - NE Colombia, NW Venezuela
Odontophorus hyperythrus - Chestnut Wood Quail - Colombia
Odontophorus melanonotus - Dark-backed Wood Quail - SW Colombia, NW Ecuador
Odontophorus speciosus - Rufous-breasted Wood Quail - W Amazonia
Odontophorus dialeucos - Tacarcuna Wood Quail - E Panama, NW Colombia
Odontophorus strophium - Gorgeted Wood Quail - Colombia
Odontophorus columbianus - Venezuelan Wood Quail - NC Venezuela
Odontophorus leucolaemus - Black-breasted Wood Quail - Costa Rica, Panama
Odontophorus balliviani - Stripe-faced Wood Quail - SE Peru, NW Bolivia
Odontophorus stellatus - Starred Wood Quail - W Amazonia
Odontophorus guttatus - Spotted Wood Quail - S Mexico to Panama

Dactylortyx thoracicus - Singing Quail - C Mexico to Honduras

Cyrtonyx montezumae - Montezuma Quail - SW US, Mexico
Cyrtonyx ocellatus - Ocellated Quail - SW Mexico to Nicaragua

Rhynchortyx cinctus - Tawny-faced Quail - Honduras to Ecuador