Udzungwa Forest Partridge

Appearance

The Udzungwa forest partridge, also known as the Udzungwa partridge, is a small, approximately 29 centimetres (11 in) long, boldly barred, brownish partridge with rufous face, grey underparts, olive-brown crown and upperparts. It has a red bill, brown iris and yellow legs.

Range and habitat

The Udzungwa forest partridge is endemic to eastern Tanzania, where it is two disjunct populations in the Udzungwa and Rubeho mountain ranges. The nominate subspecies is found in the Udzungwa Mountains, where it is inhabits the Ndundulu-Luhombero Forest and Nyumbanitu Forest. In Ndundulu-Luhombero Forest, the partridges occurs at elevations of 1,350–2,060 m.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Diet and breeding

The Udzungwa forest partridge is a fairly confiding species, coming as close as 3 m to human observers while foraging. Flocks tend to be smaller during the breeding season, when more birds are part of breeding pairs.

Udzungwa forest partridges are known to feed on beetles, ants, flies, insect larvae, woodlice, and seeds. Foraging takes place in small flocks that travel slowly through the forest floor. Breeding in the species is poorly known and its nest has never been observed.

In crisis

Udzungwa Forest Partridge is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Udzungwa Forest Partridge, Wikidata item Q656228. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.