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The red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa) is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. It is sometimes known as French partridge, to distinguish it from the English or grey partridge. The genus name is from Ancient Greek alektoris a farmyard chicken, and rufa is Latin for red or rufous. [2]
The chukar readily interbreeds with the red-legged partridge and rock partridge. The practice of breeding and releasing captive-bred chukar and hybrids between chukar and red-legged partridge has been banned in the United Kingdom, as it is a threat to red-legged partridge populations. [3] [4]
Tropicoperdix Blyth, 1859 (chestnut-necklaced and green-legged partridges) Haematortyx Sharpe, 1879 (crimson-headed partridge) Tribe Gallini. Bambusicola Gould, 1863 (bamboo partridges) Gallus Brisson, 1760 (junglefowl, including the domestic chicken) Peliperdix Bonaparte, 1856 (Latham's francolin) Ortygornis Reichenbach, 1852 (certain francolins)
Chukar Patridge from United Arab Emirates. The chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar), or simply chukar, is a Palearctic 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 is a list of the bird species recorded in Greece.The avifauna of Greece included a total of 478 species according to the Hellenic Rarities Committee of the Hellenic Ornithological Society (Ελληνική Ορνιθολογική Εταιρεία) with supplemental additions from Avibase as of May 2023.
Galliformes / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkeys, chickens, quail, and other landfowl.Gallinaceous birds, as they are called, are important in their ecosystems as seed dispersers and predators, and are often reared by humans for their meat and eggs, or hunted as game birds.
Species such as the grey partridge and the red-legged partridge are popular as game birds, and are often reared in captivity and released for the purpose of hunting. For the same reason, they have been introduced into large areas of North America. Red-legged partridge. Chestnut-bellied partridge. Scaly-breasted partridge. Grey partridge.
The sharply defined gorget distinguishes this species from red-legged partridge. The song is a noisy ga-ga-ga-ga-chakera- chakera- chakera . Some confusion exists in the naming of this species because the name of the species called stone partridge in English translates literally from other languages into English as "rock partridge".