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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.
The subfamily includes true pheasants, tragopans, grouse, turkey and similar birds. [1] Although this subfamily was considered monophyletic and separated from the partridges , francolins , and Old World quails ( Perdicinae ) till the early 1990s, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] molecular phylogenies have shown that this placement is paraphyletic.
An argus, or argus pheasant, is a member of a clade in the tribe Pavonini of the family Phasianidae, containing two species of bird that are closely related to peafowl. Description [ edit ]
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The buttonquails in the genus Turnix range from 12 to 23 cm (4.7–9.1 in) in length and weigh between 30 and 130 g (1.1–4.6 oz). They superficially resemble the true quails of the genus Coturnix , but differ from them in lacking a hind toe and a crop .
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