Hill Partridge

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has orange crown and face against a black head
2. Male has streaks on the throat
3. Male has gray breast and upper belly

Male, female and young

The female lacks the male's head pattern and gray breast and upper belly; the white flanks with ginger-brown streaks extend farther upward onto the belly.

Voice

Constant hen-like contact calls while foraging.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: April · Most records: Bhutan, India, Nepal

Hill Partridge has been recorded at 91 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 5 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. PangotIndia222 records
2. Munsyari – Bheema WodeyarIndia200 records
3. Mt. PhulchowkiNepal142 records

Countries and regions with the most records

BhutanIndiaNepalChinaMyanmar (Burma)

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The common hill partridge, necklaced hill partridge, or simply hill partridge (Arborophila torqueola) is a species of bird in the pheasant family found in Asia.

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