Colorful Chukar
by Marty Fancy
Title
Colorful Chukar
Artist
Marty Fancy
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Photograph
Description
The Chukar Partridge or 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 form a necklace that encloses a white throat. The species has been introduced into many other places and feral populations have established themselves in parts of North America and New Zealand.
This one was found on Antelope Island in the middle of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
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March 22nd, 2016
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Larry Kniskern
Congratulations, Marty – your wildlife on the rocks scene has been featured by the Go Take a Hike Photography Group! Feel free to add it to the 2024 Featured Images thread in the group discussion board for archive.