Nahan's Partridge (Ptilopachus nahani) | Photos and ID

VUVulnerableEndemicOmnivore

ForestCavity nestLarge · 310 g

Nahan's Partridge (Ptilopachus nahani), photo 1 — Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0

Nahan's Partridge (Ptilopachus nahani), photo 2 — Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0

Nahan's Partridge (Ptilopachus nahani), photo 3 — Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0

Nahan's Partridge (Ptilopachus nahani), photo 4 — Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0

Nahan's Partridge (Ptilopachus nahani), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Tommy Andriollo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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At about 25 centimetres (9.8 in) in length, the Nahan's partridge is a relatively small, terrestrial bird with a red eye-ring, legs and base of the bill, brownish upperparts, and black-and-white underparts and head.

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When to see the Nahan's Partridge

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Nahan's Partridge

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Uganda

About the Nahan's Partridge

Nahan's partridge, also known as the Nahan's francolin, is a bird traditionally placed in the family Phasianidae. As suggested by its alternative name, it was formerly believed to be a francolin and placed either in Francolinus or Pternistis, but it is now known that its closest relative is the stone partridge and together may in fact be the only African representatives of the New World quails (Odontophoridae).

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Easily confused with

Stone PartridgePtilopachus petrosusThe stone partridge is exceptional among gamebirds in that the female, to human eyes, is showier than the male.

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