Red-legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa) has three subspecies.
Red-legged cockerels are active during the day, in the early morning and evening, and usually rest at their perch at noon. Sex likes to swarm, and small flocks of up to 20 birds are often seen wandering fields and pastures. Sometimes during the day, the group scurried to the farmland near the hillside to feed, and ran straight up the hill after being startled. Emergency also fly, flying ability is strong and fast, but fly not far and fall into the grass or brush. The species often inhabits tree crotches or elevated on old farm buildings.
Early in the morning and at dusk, the rooster often stands on a bare rock or high ground and calls loudly, issuing a series of higher and higher repeats of "Go CHAK-CHAK-CHAK; Go CHAK Go CHAK-CHAK......” The sound, followed by a nasal cluck of a few vocal chords, begins slowly, then gradually accelerates and repeats many times.
It feeds mainly on plant matter such as the leaves, roots, grasses and legumes of herbaceous plants, buds and young leaves of shrubs, berries, seeds, mosses, lichens, or insects such as ants and grasshoppers, and often travels to nearby farms to feed on grains or dig up roots and tubers in the soil.
The red-legged grouse lays 10-16 cream-colored eggs with reddish brown spots per litter. Incubation lasts about 23-24 days, with the female bird alone, and occasionally the male can sit on the nest and incubate if the female is out foraging. The body of the chicks is brown and cream plumage, and the underbody is lighter. With both parents feeding, the chicks can fly 10 days after hatching and grow like adults for about two months. They usually stay at home during their first winter. This species may give birth to a second brood soon after the first brood hatches. In this case, both parents share parenting responsibilities for the chicks in each nest.
Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2016 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 - Not Threatened (LC).
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