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Nahan's Partridge
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Nahan's Partridge
Ptilopachus nahani
The Nahan's partridge (Ptilopachus nahani), also known as the Nahan's francolin, is a bird traditionally placed in the Phasianidae family. As suggested by its alternative name, it was formerly believed to be a francolin and placed either in Francolinus or Pternistis, but it is now known that its closest relative is the stone partridge and together may in fact be the only African representatives of the New World quails (Odontophoridae).
From the article Nahan's partridge on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
At about 25 centimetres (9.8 in) in length, the Nahan's partridge is a relatively small, terrestrial bird with a red eye-ring, legs and base of the bill, brownish upperparts, and black-and-white underparts and head. It is named after Captain Paul-François-Joseph Nahan (1867-1930), a Belgian mercenary who served in the Belgian Congo where he collected the specimen.
Range & habitat
This endangered species is found in the rainforests in northeastern DR Congo and western Uganda, and it is threatened by habitat loss and hunting. As of December 2024, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland is surveying the species' habitat to update its population count.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 339588.