Pheasants and Partridges (Phasianidae) - HBW 2
Barbary Partridge (Alectoris barbara)
French: Perdrix gambra
German: Felsenhuhn
Spanish: Perdiz Moruna
Taxonomy: Perdix Barbara Bonnaterre, 1792, no locality = Morocco.
Previously placed in superspecies with A. chukar, A. philbyi and A. rufa; now considered to be more distant from the reconstituted superspecies of A. magna, A. graeca, A. chukar and A. philbyi. Proposed races theresae and duprezi included respectively in barbara and spatzi. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- koenigi (Reichenow, 1899) - NW Morocco.
- barbara (Bonnaterre, 1792) - N Morocco and N Algeria; Sardinia (possibly introduced).
- spatzi (Reichenow, 1895) - S Morocco, C Algeria and S Tunisia.
- barbata (Reichenow, 1896) - Libya and NW Egypt.
- Least Concern
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Three birds on a perch, then jumping down Rabat Zoo, Rabat, Morocco
Josep del Hoyo 7 April 2007 2 years ago 29 sec 3.5 -
Two birds on a perch, then one of them flying down Rabat Zoo, Rabat, Morocco
Josep del Hoyo 7 April 2007 2 years ago 40 sec 2.8
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Up in the mountain near Zaghouan Tunisia
Photo-ay 29 February 2008 14 weeks ago 3
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Calls of a bird taking flight (from a Raven) Barranco de la Torre, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
(ssp koenigi)
Stuart Fisher 8 March 2008 13 weeks ago 3.5
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