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Snow Partridge

Animals; Birds

The Snow Partridge (Lerwa lerwa) is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae found widely distributed across the high-altitude Himalayan regions of India, Pakistan, Nepal and China.

Montezuma Quail

Animals; Birds

The Montezuma Quail (Cyrtonyx montezumae) is a stubby, secretive New World quail of Mexico and adjoining parts of the United States. It is also known as Mearns's Quail, the Harlequin Quail (for the ...

Sharp-tailed Grouse

Animals; Birds

The Sharp-tailed Grouse, Tympanuchus phasianellus (previously: Tetrao phasianellus), is a medium-sized prairie grouse. It is also known as the sharptail, and is known as "fire grouse" or "fire bird" ...

Caucasian Grouse

Animals; Birds

The Caucasian Grouse (Tetrao mlokosiewiczi) is a large bird in the grouse family. It is closely related to the Eurasian Black Grouse (T. Tetrix). It occurs in extreme southeastern Europe and adjacent ...

Black-billed Capercaillie

Animals; Birds

The Black-billed Capercaillie (Tetrao parvirostris) is a large grouse species closely related to the more widespread Western Capercaillie. It is a sedentary species which breeds in the larch taiga ...

Lesser Flamingo

Animals; Birds

The Lesser Flamingo (Phoenicopterus minor) is a species in the flamingo family of birds that resides in Africa (principally in the Great Rift Valley) and in southern Asia.

Eurasian Spoonbill

Animals; Birds

The Eurasian Spoonbill or Common Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae, breeding in southern Eurasia from Spain to Japan, and also in ...

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