Przevalski's Partridge

Alectoris magna

Medium-sized gamebird endemic to the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, where it inhabits rocky hillsides and valley slopes with grassy or sparse brushy cover. Very similar to the much more widespread and closely related Chukar, but note present species’ pale lores and slightly different head and neck patterning: the dark band that runs down the neck is extensively warm tawny-brown, and forms an extremely thin, almost broken collar (Chukar has a black band that forms a thick, solid collar). Often forages in dense vegetation, breaking cover to give its accelerating clucking song or to survey territory; in winter, may come down to settlements in areas where not hunted intensively.

分类信息

Przevalski's partridge has two recognized subspecies:<p>The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Russian explorer Nikolai Przhevalsky.

学名
Alectoris magna
命名信息
(Przevalski, 1876)
Galliformes
Phasianidae
Alectoris

分布与栖息地

迁徙
Vertical migration

保护状况

种群趋势
declining

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分布

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