eBird calls the Snow Partridge a “stone-colored terrestrial fowl of stony hillsides, mountain ridges, and meadows above treeline” – and in reality, it’s spectacular how smartly the fowl suits in with its environment, no less than once I noticed it at about 4000 meters of altitude on the Balangshan go.
Probably, the fowl I noticed was once a male for the reason that it has a spur, and the invoice is coral-red (women folk it sounds as if should not have spurs, and the invoice is pinkish or greyish-pink, in keeping with the HBW).
Any other indicator was once the decision, which sadly I didn’t arrange to seize on this video. However perhaps you’ll be able to consider it when you take a look at the picture under.
In step with one paper, it was once attempted to introduce the Snow Partridge into the Nice Basin levels of Nevada round 1970. I assume other folks had been a little bit extra naive about doubtlessly hectic current ecosystems then.
The Snow Partridge additionally has the doubtful honor of website hosting a tick that inhabits an altitude a lot upper than maximum different ticks (supply).
The species landed a unprecedented PR luck when it controlled to get at the quilt of Present Zoology in 2022 (which by the way turns out to turn a feminine with chicks, because the invoice is extra greyish than purple). An article within the magazine describes how the species diverged into two other populations about 0.4 million years in the past, pushed by way of the extension of glaciers.
And for the reason that the Snow Partridge and the Tibetan Snowcock are rather an identical of their presence and habitat necessities, how do they divide the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau amongst themselves? It sort of feels the snowcock prefers less warm, drier prerequisites, whilst the partridge prefers upper humidity and (unusually) rain. Thoughts you, I noticed each species inside only some kilometers of the go highway, so this doesn’t appear to be an excessively strict habitat participation.
