Marlon Woodsis took this picture of a chukar (Alectoris Chukar) whereas wandering a wood sidewalk in Calico Ghost City.
Calico’s ghost metropolis is about 100 miles southeast of Tehachapi within the Mojave desert, and is the location of a historic silver mining metropolis. Now it’s a County Park in San Bernardino. Marlon mentioned he visited him together with two NASA retired companions.
“We’ve got birthdays in the identical month and we begin a practice of gathering and exploring locations in honor of our birthdays,” explains Marlon. This yr’s selection was calico.
The chicken that Marlon photographed has additionally been often known as a Hungarian partridge, and was first launched in North America from Pakistan as a searching chicken in 1893, however few survived.
From 1931 to 1970, as much as 800,000 Chukar threw themselves in 10 western states as a searching chicken, and now there are established populations of Chukar all through the west.
These resistant birds are barely bigger than California’s quail, and slightly smaller than pheasnes with a hoop neck. They’ll prosper in very resistant and distant areas at any time when they’ve some entry to water.
In some ways, they behave very like California’s quail, preferring to stroll and run on the ground as an alternative of flying, forming Coveys, primarily consuming seeds and contemporary vegetation, and many others. Chukar could be discovered within the Kern nation, even within the foothills of the Tehachapi mountains that border the foothills that border the Mojave desert to the east.
Chukar are vocal birds, and their identify is derived from a sound of “chuck” that always begins their calls. Chukar is the nationwide chicken of Pakistan and Iraq.
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