- Origin: Indonesia
- Class: Birds
- Order: Galliformes
- Suborder: Phasianidés
The roll roll is Southeast Asia’s most prestigious forest quail, living on the ground and actively foraging for food, mainly insects, seeds and fallen fruit. The species is highly sexually dymorphic: the male has metallic blue plumage, while the female is green, and the male has a red brushy crest.
Like most quails, it is monogamous. The nest, built from leaves and twigs, is totally enclosed with an access hole at the front; the female lays 4 white eggs which she incubates alone for 18 days. Although the chicks are nidifuges, they return to the nest to sleep for several weeks and, unusual among galliformes which usually peck on the ground, both parents feed the chicks beak to beak.
IUCN status: near threatened (Appendix II)