The quail-plover, lark buttonquail or lark-plover (Ortyxelos meiffrenii) is a small ground-living bird in the buttonquail family Turnicidae that is found in the Sahel region of Africa and in a disjunct region of East Africa.

[2] The quail-plover is a small, short-tailed cursorial bird which slightly resembles a miniature courser when on the ground.

[4] The quail-plover is usually found singly or in pairs in dry grassland and thorn scrub.

It is rather skulking preferring to move stealthily through grass but also running around like a courser in the open.

It tends to crouch down and hide when approached and flushes only when the observer is almost on top of it and then flies off with a jerky undulating flight.