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Yesterday I was out for a bike ride and riding on a local graveled road and I spotted this bird standing and the edge and not moving. I stopped and was able to get quite close. On my way back it had moved up the road but was still there. I returned with my camera but did not get a good shot as it had gone up a long driveway. This morning I returned and it was back by the side of the road near the driveway. From the Sibley's bird book it must be a Chukar Partridge which is not native to the US. I think it must be a yard pet for the people who live up the driveway or it escaped from someone raising these birds for commercial hunting. The chukar partridge or chukar (Alectoris chukar) is a Eurasian upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first. This partridge has well marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat. The species has been introduced into many other places and feral populations have established themselves in parts of North America and New Zealand. This bird can be found in parts of Middle East. It has been introduced widely as a game bird, and feral populations have become established in the United States (Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, high desert areas of California), Canada, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand and Hawaii.[9] Initial introductions into the US were from the nominate populations collected from Afghanistan and Nepal. It has also been introduced to New South Wales in Australia but breeding populations have not persisted and are probably extinct. A small population exists on Robben Island in South Africa since it was introduced there in 1964.[Wikipedia] |
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| Source | Chukar Partridge |
| Author | Paul VanDerWerf from Brunswick, Maine, USA |
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