Mountain Bamboo Partridge

The mountain bamboo partridge is a partridge whose plumage is a mix of browns, cream and grey. It has distinctive black and white eye stripes and a pale breast and abdomen with brown speckles. It stays under shrub cover for much of the day and comes out into the open in the early morning and late evening to feed. It is found in Bangladesh, Tibet, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam (Wikipedia, general species account).

Its diet is mainly tender young bamboo shoots and fresh young foliage, along with a wide variety of seeds, berries, shoots and invertebrates. Breeding takes place in the summer months, from March to September, in a simple scrape lined with grass; the female incubates for 18–19 days, and the male stays close, feeding the female and later the chicks. Numbers appear to be declining. SoIB 2023 lists it as a resident forest bird and omnivore but does not assign it a priority category (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).