Chukar

• In Spain its release for shooting has genetically contaminated the red-legged partridge: the hybrids are fertile and many Iberian populations already carry chukar genes, a textbook case of genetic pollution through game restocking.
• Chicks only a few days old climb slopes of more than forty degrees by beating their wings as they run, a movement called wing-assisted incline running that has been proposed as a model for how flight may have originated in dinosaurs.
• Its name is onomatopoeic in several Asian languages, after the chak-chak-chukar it repeats from the hillsides.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Arid stony hillsides, high-altitude scrub and rocky steppe of Asia and south-eastern Europe

Sexual maturity

12 months

Gestation / incubation

24 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

12 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alectoris_chukar