Chukar
Posted: April 20, 2020 Filed under: animals, the California Condition Leave a comment
The chukar partridge is the national bird of Pakistan and Iraq.
Kasiarunachalam for Wikipedia
A taxidermied specimen in the Auckland museum.
There’s also a population in the United States.
MinoZig for Wikipedia
The chukar population extends to eastern California.
Originally native to southern Eurasia, the chukar (also known as partridge) was brought from Pakistan in 1932 to be a game bird. It is now plentiful in northeastern California (east of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range) and the Mojave Desert. It can be found below sea level in Death Valley, and as high as 12,000 feet in elevation in the White Mountains. A chukar range map is available on the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) website.
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Their call is a distinctive chuck-chuck-chuck, from which their name is derived. Skilled hunters who can replicate the call will find this tactic useful.
Gotta get into the desert uplands and try to find one of these guys.
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