#1141 · 🐦 birds

Chukar

🇳🇱 Aziatische Steenpatrijs ·Alectoris chukar

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

The chukar partridge or chukar ( Alectoris chukar ) is a Eurasian 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 partridge has well marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,910iNaturalist observations
weight 650 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
8,910 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 650 g.
Scientifically named by John Edward Gray in 1830 (196 years ago).