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What is it ? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter TMF1943
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bitterntwisted
Graham Howard Shortt
That's looks like a Red-Legged Partridge, a European game bird, presumably reared and released for shooting.
It's one of four or five very similar species and pen-reared birds can also be pure or hybrids of the others, especially Chukar Partridge, I'd need to check the books as the differences are subtle.
Graham
EDIT: It is a Chukar (cream face, brown on stripe behing eye, black stripe on neck distinct and not diffuse) There is a feral population in the US, but not in your region,(http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Chukar.html) which suggests this has escaped a shoot. There appear to be several shoots in Michigan raising Chukar (http://www.gamebirdhunts.com/us-hunting/Michigan.asp)
It's one of four or five very similar species and pen-reared birds can also be pure or hybrids of the others, especially Chukar Partridge, I'd need to check the books as the differences are subtle.
Graham
EDIT: It is a Chukar (cream face, brown on stripe behing eye, black stripe on neck distinct and not diffuse) There is a feral population in the US, but not in your region,(http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Chukar.html) which suggests this has escaped a shoot. There appear to be several shoots in Michigan raising Chukar (http://www.gamebirdhunts.com/us-hunting/Michigan.asp)
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