Alectoris

Chukar ( Alectoris chukar )

Partridges are powerfully built birds with short neck, large head, short, curved ridges on the beak, medium high foot with a blunt spur or a spur suggestive Hornwarze, medium long wings and fairly long tail. Systematically, they are very close to the sand chickens.

The most widely used among the block is the chickens chukar, described for a long time as a type in cooperation with the stone chicken. Due to the very different vocal repertoire has now, however, prevailed, to distinguish two types here.

The Partridge came to the 16th century in Germany in the Rhine, Neckar and Aartal. It died there in 1560 of but after then entered a climatic deterioration. However, it is naturalized in Britain, where it counts for hunting wild since 1770.

The Przewalski's Rock Partridge, clip the chicken, the Arabian rock partridge and Philby's Rock Partridge, endemic species, the chukar the very same, but occur only in very limited areas.

Species

• Chukar (A. chukar )
• Rock partridge (A. graeca ) - the Rock Partridge is a subspecies of stone chicken
• Przewalski's rock partridge (A. magna)
• Red-legged partridge (A. rufa)
• Schwarzkopf rock partridge (A. melanocephala )
• Philby's rock partridge (A. philbyi )
• Rock chicken ( A. barbara )