Spotted Quail-thrush

The Spotted Quail-thrush is typically seen singly or in twos and, seldom, in little relations groups of up to five birds.  It is an unremarkable, shy and subtle variety, hardly still allow a close come near by a witness; it more often than not keeps its back towards the spectator while walking furtively away into wrap.  Foraging birds are more often than not seen moving over leaf-litter on the jungle floor, with a leisurely, roundabout walk, a crouch run, or walking or in a row over or amid rock and fall lumber.  When worried, the variety prefer to hide somewhat than take flight, habitually chilly awaiting it is about underfoot; only then do they flush, with an easy to hear quail-like whirring of their wings, flying low in a fleet, sturdily rising and falling dash for 50–100 meters prior to diving hastily onto the earth (almost at right angles) and dying into cover.  They keep up speak to with one another by utter a thin, nearly muffled seep note, which is often the first suggestion of a bird’s incidence.  Males sing from bare firewood or brushwood.

HABITAT
The genus as a rule inhabit dry open eucalypt forest and woodland with an open or spare underscore and spare or no floor plaster, frequently on singly ridge and slope.  dotted Quail-thrushes are a lot record in open habitat conquered by box–ironbark eucalypts, male eucalypts, stringy barks, Silvertip Ash and dotted Gums, and, at higher altitude, Snow Gums.  They keep away from moist or wet habitats, and are hardly ever recorded in habitats with a dense, healthy under storey, but from time to time occur in healthy woodlands with a sparse under storey, especially after fires, and also in some areas regenerate in the first few years after cataloguing, but the genus avoids areas of older ragwort.  Spotted Quail-thrushes are time and again seen on the soil down track, alongside roads or on the verge of clearings within apposite habitat, although this is no hesitation an artifact of detestability in such open habitats