After work on Monday, I sat in the park on Grove and Temple Streets and watched birds. Unfortunately, the only bird I saw was a House Sparrow. I made friends with this one:
During my run yesterday, I ran by this dead bird on the side of the road. Come to find out, it's a Chukar--a bird introduced from the Middle East for hunting purposes. What in the world was a dead Chukar doing on Whitfield Street in Guilford?
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Interesting...I've never seen one of them. Perhaps it was domestic and escaped?
Because I couldn't find it in Sibley's, that's what I thought. It is in Sibley's, though--just a fatter version. It's got all the field marks of a Chukar, but it wasn't as fat as the one pictured in Sibley's--nor as fat as the one's returned by a search of Google Images.
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