Profile
In flight
Game Birds
Hill Partridge
Arborophila torqueola
- epic
- 65 km/h
- Least Concern
A secretive partridge of misty oak forests, whistling at dawn from beneath the rhododendrons. Heard far more often than seen.
- Population
- widespread but uncommon across the Himalaya and northern Southeast Asia
- Habitat
- dense undergrowth of evergreen and oak-rhododendron forest, 1500-3000 m
- Diet
- seeds, bamboo shoots, tubers, berries, insects
- Size
- 0.28 m
- Wingspan
- 0.43 m
