{"id":14510,"date":"2013-04-20T06:56:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T12:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=14510"},"modified":"2013-04-20T06:56:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T12:56:54","slug":"gray-partridges-in-northwest-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/20\/gray-partridges-in-northwest-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray Partridges In Northwest Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gray Partridge has a fairly limited range in North America and most folks don’t get to see them so I thought some might be interested in a post on the species.\u00a0 This bird prefers the grasslands and grainfields of our northern wheat-belt so they’re fairly common on\u00a0the family farm in northwest Montana.<\/p>\n

Gray Partridges are often called Hungarian Partridges, or\u00a0“Huns” for short.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0There’s very little sexual dimorphism in these partridges so the sexes are difficult to distinguish.\u00a0 This is an adult – the cinnamon bars on the\u00a0 flanks are a good field mark for the species.<\/p>\n

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These birds are wary and fast so they’re a challenge to photograph.\u00a0 They always seem to be buried in vegetation or running…<\/p>\n

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\u00a0or foraging in small groups with their heads down.\u00a0 The bird on the right is an adult with two juveniles behind.<\/p>\n

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Here you can see the orange-rufous outer tail feathers of this juvenile.\u00a0 The cinnamon bars on the flanks are just beginning to show.\u00a0\u00a0 The darker brown line in the upper background is a rusty old strand of barbed wire.<\/p>\n

The range\u00a0of this species includes extreme northwestern Utah and\u00a0I’ve seen a few of them in Box Elder County but never been able to get any decent shots of our Utah birds.\u00a0 Hopefully that will change one day soon.<\/p>\n

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The Gray Partridge has a fairly limited range in North America and most folks don’t get to see them so I thought some of my readers might be interested in a post on the species. This bird prefers the grasslands and grainfields of our northern wheat-belt so they’re fairly common on our family farm in northwest Montana.<\/p>\n

Gray Partridges are often called Hungarian Partridges, or “Huns” for short.<\/p>\n

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