The common buttonquail resembles the common quail, it has streaked sandy brown upperparts, buff underparts with black flank markings, and a plain face. In flight, a whitish wingbar contrasts with the grey wing.
By the meteorological calendar, winter always starts on 1 December. The seasons are defined as Spring (March, April, May), Summer (June, July, August), Autumn (September, October, November) and Winter (December, January, February).
Meteorological winter season. The meteorological winter will begin on 1 December 2016 and will end on 28 February 2017. The meteorological seasons consists of splitting the seasons into four periods made up of three months each.