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ShrublandScrapeLarge · 359 g
What the Red Spurfowl sounds like
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Overall reddish-brown, this large partridge-like bird has a somewhat long tail. The upper parts are brown with dark barring while the face and neck are more grey in the male. The underside is rufous with dark markings and both sexes have a red facial skin patch and red legs with one or two spurs (rarely three or four while females may have none). Downy chicks have an unmarked cinnamon brown head, a dark brown band along the back bordered by creamy stripes edged with thin lines of dark brown. The male of the distinctive Kerala race, G. s.
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When to see the Red Spurfowl
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Red Spurfowl
The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Red Spurfowl
The red spurfowl is a member of the pheasant family and is endemic to India. It is a bird of forests, and is quite secretive despite its size. It has a distinctive call and is often hard to see except for a few seconds when it flushes from the undergrowth. It appears reddish and like a long-tailed partridge. The bare skin around the eye is reddish. The legs of both males and females have one or two spurs, which give them their name.
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Easily confused with
Painted SpurfowlGalloperdix lunulataThis spurfowl is distinctive in having no bare facial skin as in the red spurfowl.
Sri Lanka SpurfowlGalloperdix bicalcarataThe Sri Lanka spurfowl is a member of the pheasant family which is endemic to the dense rainforests of Sri Lanka.
Side by side: Painted Spurfowl vs Red Spurfowl
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