Chukar Partridge
Alectoris chukar - Perdrix choukar
Systematics
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Order:
Galliformes
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Family:
Phasianidés
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Genus:
Alectoris
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Species:
chukar
Descriptor
Biometrics
- Size: 39 cm
- Wingspan: 47 à 52 cm.
- Weight: 450 à 800 g
Geographic range
Description identification
Chukar Partridge (Alectoris chukar) is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family.
Subspecific information 14 subspecies
- Alectoris chukar chukar (e Afghanistan to Nepal)
- Alectoris chukar kleini (n Greece through Bulgaria and n Turkey to the Caucasus)
- Alectoris chukar cypriotes (Crete, Rhodes, Cyprus, sw and sc Turkey)
- Alectoris chukar kurdestanica (se Turkey, n Syria, n Iraq to n Iran)
- Alectoris chukar sinaica (Syria to Sinai Pen.. Egypt.)
- Alectoris chukar werae (e Iraq, sw Iran)
- Alectoris chukar koroviakovi (ne and e Iran to w Pakistan)
- Alectoris chukar subpallida (c Turkmenistan to c Uzbekistan and n Afghanistan)
- Alectoris chukar falki (w Uzbekistan to nc Afghanistan and w China)
- Alectoris chukar dzungarica (Tien Shan Mts.. e Kazakhstan, w China. to nw Mongolia)
- Alectoris chukar pallida (w Xinjiang. w China.)
- Alectoris chukar pallescens (ne Afghanistan to w Tibet)
- Alectoris chukar potanini (w Mongolia, nw China)
- Alectoris chukar pubescens (ne Xinjiang. w China. to sw Mongolia and n Ningxia (c China))
Foreign names
- Perdrix choukar,
- Perdiz chúcar,
- perdiz-chucar,
- Chukarhuhn,
- csukár,
- Aziatische Steenpatrijs,
- Coturnice orientale,
- berghöna,
- Berghøne,
- kuropta čukar,
- orebice čukar,
- Chukarhøne,
- vuoripyy,
- Asiatiese Patrys,
- perdiu chukar,
- Berghæna,
- góropatwa azjatycka,
- čukora,
- turška kotorna,
- Кеклик,
- イワシャコ,
- 石鸡,
- 石雞,
Habitat
Shrubland : Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation ; Grassland : Temperate
Sources of information
- IOC World Bird List (v12.2), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2022.
Other sources of interest
- Accipitriformes
- Anseriformes
- Apodiformes
- Apterygiformes
- Bucerotiformes
- Caprimulgiformes
- Cariamiformes
- Casuariiformes
- Charadriiformes
- Ciconiiformes
- Coliiformes
- Columbiformes
- Coraciiformes
- Cuculiformes
- Eurypygiformes
- Falconiformes
- Galliformes
- Gaviiformes
- Gruiformes
- Leptosomiformes
- Mesitornithiformes
- Musophagiformes
- Opisthocomiformes
- Otidiformes
- Passeriformes
- Pelecaniformes
- Phaethontiformes
- Phoenicopteriformes
- Piciformes
- Podicipediformes
- Procellariiformes
- Psittaciformes
- Pterocliformes
- Rheiformes
- Sphenisciformes
- Strigiformes
- Struthioniformes
- Suliformes
- Tinamiformes
- Trogoniformes