Gray partridge (Latin Perdix perdix) is a widespread varieties from the category of partridges. Difficult to distinguish from an additional types, the bearded partridge.
Beginning as well as Evolution Fossil remains are known for two ancient varieties — P. palaeoperdix and also P. margaritae. P.palaeoperdix was dispersed throughout southerly Europe in the Late and also early Pleistocene and also comprised a vital part of the diet of Cro-Magnon as well as Neanderthals.
The phylogenetic placement of this varieties as well as the gray partridge is unclear sufficient. Although they unquestionably had an exterior similarity, the grey partridge, instead, did not come from this Pleistocene taxon, and also both varieties
should be taken into consideration nursing. P. margaritae is known from the late Pliocene of Transbaikalia as well as Northern Mongolia — this types additionally can not be considered genealogical to the modern-day P. perdix as well as P. dauuricae. general characteristics It has a rounded body, the total length — is 28-32 centimeters. The beak and legs are of dark color. The upper part of the feathering is pockmarked, brown, flanks and the tail are red. Spurs on the legs absent.
Sexual distinctions are decreased only to the fact that the women are much more light. Spread They live in the warm zone of Eurasia. It lives in almost all of Europe, Asia Minor, Kazakhstan and also the south of Western Siberia, from the British Isles and Scandinavia to the Altai as well as Tuva. In the Turan lowland to the south of the reduced reaches of the Syr Darya is missing. In Scandinavia and Finland penetrates to the north to 66 ° N. In Karelia as much as the 65th parallel.
Object of hunting.
In the Middle Urals, the north boundary passes in the regions of Krasnoufimsk and Yekaterinburg, as well as in Western Siberia — approximately the 57th parallel. To the east the grey partridge gets to Altai, Tuva, western Dzungaria as well as the lower reaches of the Ili River.
At the meridian of Tashkent, its variety almost gets to 40 ° N. W. Lives in various biotopes: in mixed natural herbs with bushes and also woodland pits in the plains and also valleys of rivers, in forest-steppes, in grain areas as well as in down payments, in woodland felling, on woodland fringes, over ravines, overgrown shrubs, hardly ever on health waste land, in Hilly sands with thickets of willow or tamarisk. In the hilly locations it is maintained in the foothills, on the fields in the woodland belt as well as increases to subalpine fields. Way of life They are less active birds, they live in open locations. Eat a range of seeds, often bugs. Nests are organized on the ground in the kind of lined recesses, located in private areas.
The voice of the male is a loud”cockerel” comparable to a fowl cry, and also females are a whack. In winter season, it transfers to inhabited areas, sleeps in courtyards, at structures, along with in bushes or
at the foot of hillsides and also barkhans, gathering in a close flock on the snow from the lee side.
