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for the species is 'Mur'rindum'. The cultural and community significance of the species is not known. Further research into the subject area may benefit the conservation of the species by providing insights about traditional culture and land management.

This statement of significance is not intended to be comprehensive, applicable to, or speak for, all Indigenous Australians and it is acknowledged that Indigenous groups and individuals are the custodians of this knowledge.

Relevant biology and ecology

Habitat requirements

The Black-breasted Button-quail has specific habitat requirements involving soil fertility, leaf litter and litter accumulation and habitat structural attributes that are important determinants of food availability and protection from predation. The species habitat includes:
   * Dense forest or thicket vegetation with closed canopy and dense mid storey, providing concealment from predators, but little ground-covering vegetation, and a thick bed of leaf litter and soft fertile soil in which the birds forage for invertebrates.

   * Habitat with closed canopy but very little mid-storey, and also where there's ground cover of native and/or exotic forbs such as Coral Berry (Ardisia crenata).

   * Sandy dune scrub on the coast.

Typically, Black-breasted Button-quail occur in vegetation that is seasonally wet, that being a condition associated with heavy leaf fall, which creates the deep layer of leaf litter. In dry rainforest, the seasonal stress of the late dry season together with the deciduous or semi-deciduous nature of some trees, are major contributors to leaf fall.

Black-breasted Button-quails are most frequently reported from the following ecological communities and vegetation types:
   * Vine thickets and rainforest vegetation types that are periodically water-stressed. These include semi-evergreen vine thicket, low microphyll vine forest, Araucarian microphyll vine forest, Araucarian notophyll vine forest and Brachychiton scrubs that may incorporate bottle trees Brachychiton spp., Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla) and Belah (Casuarina cristata) (Flower et al. 1995).
   * Low thickets or woodlands with a dense understorey but little ground cover, typically dominated by Acacia spp. (Flower et al. 1995).
   * In littoral habitats, dry vine scrubs, acacia (Acacia spp.) thickets and areas densely covered in shrubs, particularly Midgen Berry (Austromyrtus dulcis) (Marchant & Higgins 1993).
   * Regrowth of the above vegetation groups, in most cases adjacent to intact remnants.
   * Patches of the introduced weed (Lantana camara), particularly when associated with the above vegetation types.
   * Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) plantations where there is a dense understorey, usually comprised of the introduced weed Lantana camara and then, generally adjacent to the above-listed forest types.
   * Wetter subtropical rainforest sometimes in association with moist eucalypt forest in New South Wales (Garnett & Crowley 2000).

Black-breasted Button-quail habitat may also change when populations are put under intense pressure e.g., Hervey Bay where birds have been found foraging at the