Male © Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok eBird S51577784 Macaulay Library ML 136442151
Female © Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok
Pair © Wich’yanan Limparungpatthanakij
Male © Gaurav Sirola

Hill Partridge Arborophila torqueola

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Identification

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A brightly-colored game bird with an intricate head pattern and a body shaped like a football. Brick-red on the crown serves to distinguish the male from the similar Rufous-throated Partridge, while male Hill Partridge also lacks orange on the throat. Female lacks the male's white chest band and brick-red crown and has less orange on the throat than Rufous-throated. Moves around in convoys through dense vegetation in mid- to high-altitude forests.

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