{"id":167087,"date":"2025-03-03T05:59:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=167087"},"modified":"2025-03-03T07:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:04:43","slug":"a-chukar-behavior-ive-never-seen-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/03\/a-chukar-behavior-ive-never-seen-before\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chukar Behavior I’ve Never Seen Before"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four photos and three short video clips.<\/p>\n

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Four days ago the Chukars on Antelope Island were finally conspicuously active again. In one area of the island in particular many Chukars were calling to each other from elevated rocky perches, a behavior that makes them ‘stickier’ for the photographer.<\/p>\n

I most definitely took advantage of their stickiness, even though I was having trouble with heat waves causing slight softness in my photos for much of the morning. That softness may be evident in some of today’s photos and video clips but I think they’re plenty sharp enough to document these behaviors.<\/p>\n

Chukars are a vocal species. The Chukar above was exhibiting what’s called their “rally call”. Here’s what Cornell’s Birds of the World has to say about the rally call:<\/p>\n

“Most common call and the one from which species derives it name. Commences as low-intensity chuck, chuck, chuck that changes to per-chuck, per-chuck as intensity increases. This in turn gives way to chukar-chukar-chukar, which with ever-increasing intensity and volume becomes 3-syllable chuckara-chuckara-chuckara . This call usually given from rocky vantage point and carries for great distances. Both sexes use this call. During summer, fall, and winter, when coveys are flushed, this call is the primary method used for locating one another. Function of this call during breeding season is primarily to space males rather than to attract a mate.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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