Stone Partridge (Ptilopachus petrosus)

Family
Odontophoridae (New World Quails)

Size
25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1789)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist shrubland, dry savanna. From 600 - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (48)...)

Stone Partridge (Ptilopachus petrosus) [XC296664]
by Peter Boesman from Kavirondo Escarpment, Kenya (call)

Stone Partridge (Ptilopachus petrosus) [XC857075]
by Bram Piot from Killy, Foni Bintang Karenai, Brikama, Gambia (song)

Subspecies
Proposed subspecies saturatior, butleri, brehmi, emini and florentiae included within nominate petrosus.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

petrosus (Gmelin, 1789) - Senegal east to Kenya.
major Neumann, 1908 - North-western Ethiopia.
brehmi Neumann, 1908 - Southern Chad to central Sudan.
florentiae Ogilvie-Grant, 1900 - Southern Sudan and southern Ethiopia to north-eastern DR Congo, northern Uganda and central Kenya.

References
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Files:

JPG files for Stone Partridge (Ptilopachus petrosus) - 10 files

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