About the Ferruginous Partridge
The ferruginous partridge is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae. It belongs to the monotypical genus Caloperdix. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand.
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The ferruginous partridge measures from 27 to 32 cm (11–13 in) in length and weighs between 191–230 g (6.7–8.1 oz). The plumage is distinctive, having a rufous head, breast and belly and black scaled with white upper back and sides of breast and flanks. The wings are brown with black spots, and the rest of the back is black scaled with rufous. The sexes are similar except the male has two spurs and the female just one.
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Where the Ferruginous Partridge lives
When to see the Ferruginous Partridge
Peak activity in December · a resident species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Germain's Peacock-PheasantPolyplectron germainiThe bird is a medium-sized, approximately 60 centimetres (24 in) long, brownish dark pheasant with finely spotted buff, short crest, bare red facial skin, brown iris and purplish-blue ocelli on upperbody plumage and half of its tail of twenty feathers.
Snow PartridgeLerwa lerwaThis partridge appears grey above and chestnut below with bright red bill and legs and the upperparts finely barred in black and white.
Temminck's TragopanTragopan temminckiiTemminck's tragopan is a medium-sized, approximately 64 cm long, pheasant in the genus Tragopan.
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