The Partridge (no family)
If you understand the title of this photo, you're old. :-)
I took this photo in the park which has become my weekly "get out of the condo destination" during the pandemic. It has always been a favourite place to go with my camera and now is a good place which allows for nice walks with appropriate physical distancing from other people.
This bird was fairly near the bench I was sitting at, I've never seen a bird like it in this park. I immediately thought it was a chukar (aka chukar partridge) which, although not common are found in the region. Several people stopped on their walks to chat about the bird, all saying that they too had never seen one like it here before and a couple of them expressed the opinion that it was a chukar. Then one guy said the colour seemed a bit wrong for a chukar and I'd been thinking that too so when I got home I did some googling and have decided it is probably a rock partridge which, as it turns out, is very closely related to the chukar.
The Partridge (no family)
If you understand the title of this photo, you're old. :-)
I took this photo in the park which has become my weekly "get out of the condo destination" during the pandemic. It has always been a favourite place to go with my camera and now is a good place which allows for nice walks with appropriate physical distancing from other people.
This bird was fairly near the bench I was sitting at, I've never seen a bird like it in this park. I immediately thought it was a chukar (aka chukar partridge) which, although not common are found in the region. Several people stopped on their walks to chat about the bird, all saying that they too had never seen one like it here before and a couple of them expressed the opinion that it was a chukar. Then one guy said the colour seemed a bit wrong for a chukar and I'd been thinking that too so when I got home I did some googling and have decided it is probably a rock partridge which, as it turns out, is very closely related to the chukar.