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Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys, and Old World Quail

17 Bird Species

Chukar

Chicken-like, bulky, with short legs and tail. Adult has thick vertical black bars on flanks, sandy gray back and wings, orange undertail coverts, gray breast, creamy white belly, white throat with thick black border, red orbital ring around black eye, and short red bill. more...

Length: 36 cm Wingspan: 51 cm

Dusky Grouse

A dark bluish-gray grouse of interior western montane forests. Adult male has slate-blue underparts with white-edged flanks, dark wings, blackish tail with gray tip, dark gray head with orange comb above eye, and short black bill. Displaying male struts with fanned tail and puffs up smooth magenta ai more...

Length: 51 cm Wingspan: 66 cm

Gray Partridge

Chicken-like, bulky, with short legs and tail. Adult male has bold vertical rufous bars on flanks, dark patch on belly, grayish back and wings patterned subtly with shades of brown, rufous tail, clean gray neck, stubby gray bill, and orange head with dusky auricular patch and crown. Female lacks dark more...

Length: 32 cm Wingspan: 48 cm

Greater Prairie-Chicken

A chunky, short-tailed, chicken-like bird of Midwest plains. Adults are heavily marked with brown barring over buff undertones on entire body. The head pattern of both males and females includes pale throat, whitish eyeline that connects to a white eye ring and forks into a thin pale supercilium. Mal more...

Length: 43 cm Wingspan: 71 cm

Greater Sage-Grouse

A large, chicken-like bird of western sagebrush landscapes. Adult male has blackish head, white breast, black belly, black upperparts marbled with white, short yellow legs, and long, finely barred tail. Female is finely patterned brown, black, and white overall, with solid black belly, large black sp more...

Length: 71 cm Wingspan: 97 cm

Gunnison Sage-Grouse

Found only in Colorado and Southeast Utah; closely resembles Greater Sage-Grouse. Adult male has blackish head, white breast, black belly, black upperparts marbled with white, short yellow legs, and long, finely barred tail. Female is finely patterned brown, black, and white overall, with solid black more...

Length: 56 cm Wingspan: 76 cm

Himalayan Snowcock

This Asian species has been established only in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada. This large grouse is short-legged and short-tailed and very plump. Plumage is gray-brown overall with rusty streaks on the upperparts. The face and throat are whitish, highlighted by two chestnut stipes that frame the auric more...

Length: 55 cm Wingspan: 86 cm

Lesser Prairie-Chicken

This little prairie grouse is very similar to Greater Prairie-Chicken, and the two have hybridized on occasion. Lesser Prairie-Chicken is pale gray-brown overall with extensive barring. The barring on the underparts is finer than that of Greater Prairie-Chicken, and weakens across the belly. Males h more...

Length: 38 cm Wingspan: 71 cm

Ring-necked Pheasant

Adult male is nearly unmistakable, with golden-orange plumage, extremely long pointed tail, green head, red facial skin, white neck collar, and fine black spots on underparts. Female is much drabber, buffy-orange and light brown overall, with relatively long pointed tail, fine black barring on wings, more...

Length: 76 cm Wingspan: 79 cm

Rock Ptarmigan

A mid-sized, chicken-like bird of northern latitudes. Alternate Adult male is heavily mottled blackish-brown above with red comb over eye, tiny black bill, white underparts with brown spots on flanks, white wings, and short feathered legs. Alternate Adult female is brown overall, heavily barred with more...

Length: 36 cm Wingspan: 58 cm

Ruffed Grouse

A chunky, chicken-like bird of northern forests. Adult is brownish overall with thick black bars on white flanks, brown patterned upperparts, dark band on tip of tail, brown head with pale throat, and an angular spiky crest. Some individuals are gray, some are bright rufous overall. more...

Length: 43 cm Wingspan: 56 cm

Sharp-tailed Grouse

A mostly brown, short-tailed, chicken-like bird. Adult is brown overall with slight crest, thin, pointed tail, lightly spotted and scaled underparts, white spots on brown wings, and short, black bill. Displaying male leans forward with tail pointed straight up, showing purple air sacs on neck and yel more...

Length: 43 cm Wingspan: 63 cm

Sooty Grouse

Very similar to Dusky Grouse, which along with this species were once considered conspecific as Blue Grouse. Often appears long-tailed and longer-necked than other forest grouse. Male: Upperparts are dark gray-brown. Underparts are dark gray. Tail is slightly rounded or wedge-shaped (square on Dusky) more...

Length: 46 cm Wingspan: 61 cm

Spruce Grouse

This short-tailed grouse of coniferous forests is often quite tame, allowing close approach by observers. Two subspecies groups occur, Taiga Grouse over most of the range, and Franklin's Grouse in the Northern Rockies and Cascades. Male Taiga: Upperparts are slate gray with pale feather edges. The fa more...

Length: 38 cm Wingspan: 56 cm

White-tailed Ptarmigan

A mid-sized, chicken-like bird of northern latitudes. Alternate Adult male is mottled brown and black above with red comb over eye, small black bill, white underparts with black spots on breast, white wings, and short feathered legs. Alternate Adult female is brown overall, lacking rufous tones, heav more...

Length: 32 cm Wingspan: 56 cm

Wild Turkey

Adult male is very large, blackish-brown overall, with iridescent green on body, brown-tipped tail, black-and-white barred flight feathers, bare blue and red skin on head, and a tuft of long narrow feathers hanging from breast. Female is similar but more brown than black, and lacks colorful skin on h more...

Length: 116 cm Wingspan: 162 cm