Chukar Partridge
Alectoris chukar · Bird
The chukar runs over rocky, dry, open hillsides with grass and scattered scrub from Greece and Turkey across Asia to Manchuria, up to 4,000 metres in the Himalaya, and has been loosed as a game bird in North America, New Zealand and elsewhere. Outside the breeding season it goes in coveys of 10 to 50, and in winter it comes down into the valleys and fields. It lays 7 to 21 eggs, which people gather in the Himalaya. It is shot for the pot, and in Pakistan and Afghanistan the males are caught for partridge fights.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- In flocks, by day
- Size
- Small
- In winter
- Active in winter
Where it lives
Grassland, Mediterranean Scrub, Cold Desert
Gives
Sources
- Lara Peterson, Alectoris chukar (chukar). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2001.
- Chukar partridge. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
- Perdrix choukar. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, 2026.
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