Rock Partridge

The rock partridge is a rotund gamebird with a light brown back, grey breast and buff belly. The face is white with a black gorget and the flanks are rufous-streaked, with red legs. It is very like the chukar but greyer on the back, with a white rather than yellowish foreneck. It is a resident breeder in dry, open and often hilly country, nesting in a scantily lined scrape on the ground and laying 5–21 eggs (Wikipedia, general species account).

The cached account does not describe its range in India, and the species is not in SoIB 2023, so its status on the Indian list should be checked. Some confusion exists in the naming, because the bird called the stone partridge in English translates literally in other languages as rock partridge. Its song is a noisy ga-ga-ga-ga-chakera (Wikipedia, general species account).