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The first gift listed is "a partridge in a pear tree", and these words end each verse. Since partridges are unlikely to be seen in pear trees (they are ground-nesting birds) [5] it has been suggested that the text "a pear tree" is a corruption of the French "une perdrix" (a partridge). [6]
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.
Widespread and common throughout much of its range, the grey partridge is evaluated as "of Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. However, it has suffered a serious decline in the UK , and in 2015 appeared on the "Birds of Conservation Concern" Red List. [ 11 ]
The genus Arborophila was introduced in 1837 by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson to accommodate a single species, the hill partridge, which is therefore the type species. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The genus name combines the Latin arbor , arboris meaning "tree" with the Ancient Greek philos meaning "-loving".
Wild birds may serve as reservoirs of infection and have been implicated as the sources of infections in outbreaks on game-bird farms as well as poultry farms. Wild reservoir hosts may include pheasants, ruffed grouse, partridges, wild turkeys, magpies, meadowlarks, American robins, grackles, jays, jackdaws, rooks, starlings and crows.
The bearded wood partridge is 33 to 35.5 cm (13.0 to 14.0 in) long and weighs between 405 and 459 g (14.3 and 16.2 oz). Adults have bluish gray cheeks, neck, and upper chest. There is a red patch around the eye. The crown is buff and has a small crest. The nape and chest are cinnamon, with red striations on the nape and sides of the chest.
Long-tailed wood partridge Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Galliformes Family: Odontophoridae Genus: Dendrortyx Species: D. macroura Binomial name Dendrortyx macroura (Jardine & Selby, 1828) photo from a camera trap The long-tailed wood partridge (Dendrortyx macroura) is a bird ...
Buffy-crowned wood partridge Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Galliformes Family: Odontophoridae Genus: Dendrortyx Species: D. leucophrys Binomial name Dendrortyx leucophrys (Gould, 1844) The buffy-crowned wood partridge (Dendrortyx leucophrys) is a bird species in the family ...