Partridge | Ground-dwelling, Grouse-like, Gamebird (2024)

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Ruffed grouse is the preferred common name because it applies only to this species. Misleading vernacular names abound, however, and it is often called partridge (sometimes rendered pa'tridge, or shortened to pat), pheasant, or prairie chicken, all of which are properly applied to other birds.

The clade Phasianidae is the largest of the branch Galliformes, comprising 185 species divided into 54 genera. This group includes the pheasants and partridges, junglefowl chickens, quail, and peafowl.

Chukars are sandy brown with a strong black stripe through the eye, red bill, and black stripes on the sides, unlike Gray Partridge's gray plumage, tawny face, and brown-striped flanks.

Grouse, partridges, pheasant and quail.

A North American name for the ruffed grouse, Bonasa umbellus. The ruffed grouse, Bonasa umbellus, which has pale flesh.

Gray Partridges are common throughout their native range, but are uncommon in North America. According to the North American Breeding Bird Survey populations declined by nearly 2% per year from 1966–2015, resulting in a cumulative decline of 60%.

You will, ideally, serve one chukar or similar bird per person, or two quail or woodco*ck, or maybe just one pheasant for two people. But a chukar is a great single serving game bird.

partridge, any of many small game birds native to the Old World and belonging to the family Phasianidae (order Galliformes). They are larger than quails, with stronger bills and feet.

The chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar), or simply chukar, is a Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae.

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Common or Ring-Necked pheasants are perhaps the most widely-recognized upland game birds in the world. They are highly sought after for the sport they present, as well as their quality as table fare.

Grouse belong to the Galliformes, an order of ground-dwelling birds. They are distant cousins to ring-necked pheasants and turkeys.

The best-known North American species is the ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus). In New England it is generally called a partridge, although it is not a true partridge.

The grey partridge (Perdix perdix), also known as the grey-legged partridge, English partridge, Hungarian partridge, or hun, is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. The scientific name is the Latin for "partridge", and is itself derived from Ancient Greek perdix.

Partridges: a covey. Peaco*cks: a muster or ostentation. Penguins: a colony. Pheasants: a nest, nide or bouquet. Pigeons: a flock or flights.

RANGE. Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) are the most widely distributed resident game bird in North America, living now or recently in all of the Canadian Provinces and in 38 of the 49 states on the continent.