Profile
In flight
Game Birds
Taiwan Partridge
Arborophila crudigularis
- rare
- 55 km/h
- Least Concern
A Taiwan ghost of the cloud forest, heard far more often than seen. Its mournful whistle carries through the mist before the bird itself slips back into the ferns.
- Population
- Taiwan endemic; locally common but rarely seen
- Habitat
- Taiwan endemic; primary and secondary broadleaf forest floor at 700–2,300 m elevation
- Diet
- seeds, shoots, berries, invertebrates
- Size
- 0.28 m
- Wingspan
- 0.42 m
