Chukar Partridge

Alectoris chukar dzungarica (Sushkin, 1927)

2012-10-21 Almaty area. Borokhudzir.	© Andrey Kovalenko

Description

General colour darker, brown colour on crown distributed more widely, olive colour on wings more poorly developed than falki. Male wing length 157-160 (159), female 152-160 (156) mm.

Distribution

Breeding in Dzhungarskiy Alatau, Tarbagatay and also in Saur, Monrak and Southern Altai.

References

"Птицы Казахстана" том 2. Алма-Ата, 1962. Gavrilov E. I., Gavrilov A. E. "The Birds of Kazakhstan". Almaty, 2005. Э.И.Гаврилов. "Фауна и распространение птиц Казахстана". Алматы, 1999.