The Arabian partridge (Alectoris melanocephala) is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae, native to the southern Arabian peninsula. Two subspecies are recognised, A. m. melanocephala and A. m. guichardi. It sometimes hybridises with Philby's partridge (Alectoris philbyi) and with the rock partridge (Alectoris graeca).[2]
^BirdLife International (2016). "Alectoris melanocephala". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22678714A92784875. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22678714A92784875.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
The Arabianpartridge (Alectoris melanocephala) is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae, native to the southern Arabian peninsula. Two subspecies...
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subfamily includes the partridges, the snowcocks, the francolins, the spurfowl and the Old World quail. Alectoris Arabianpartridge, Alectoris melanocephala...
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Although this subfamily was considered monophyletic and separated from the partridges, francolins, and Old World quails (Perdicinae) till the early 1990s, molecular...
phylogenetic evidence supports the closest relatives of Gallus being the bamboo partridges in the genus Bambusicola, from which they diverged about 15 million years...
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genus of partridges in the family Phasianidae, closely related to Old World quail (Coturnix and relatives), snowcocks (Tetraogallus), partridge-francolins...
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are a family of heavy, ground-living birds, which includes pheasants, partridges, junglefowl, chickens, turkeys, Old World quail, and peafowl. The family...
east to south Arabia. It is closely related and similar to its counterpart in southeast Turkey and east to Pakistan, the see-see partridge, Ammoperdix griseogularis...
southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and overlooks the mouth of the Persian Gulf. It shares land borders with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates...
of bobwhites and partridges due to habitat and food competition. Insects are a valuable food source for both pheasants and partridges and competition may...
and divided into five families: Phasianidae (including chicken, quail, partridges, pheasants, turkeys, peafowl (peacocks) and grouse), Odontophoridae (New...
and the bamboo partridges (Bambusicola); together, these clades compose the tribe Gallini. Although formerly classified in the partridge subfamily Perdicinae...
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