The Red-headed Partridge is the target bird in Gunung Alab 2000m asl. It is an easy shoot here as its very active in numbers too. You will be spoiled for choice which one to shoot. They stay quite a while 10-15 minutes if you guys do not make too much commotion; unlike the red-breasted partridge which also drop in and out in minutes during our encounter. Maybe the threesome are easily intimidated.
A striking species of partridge, the crimson-headed partridge has an average length of around 25 cm (9.8 in) and the weight of one measured male was 330 g (12 oz). Adult males have a distinctive appearance; the heads, necks, and breasts, along with the final section of the undertail coverts, are crimson red, while the rest of the body is dark blackish. The bill is yellow to yellowish white, the iris is brown with a yellow orbital ring, and the feet are grey with one to three tarsal spurs. Adult females have a similar pattern, bur differ in their duller and browner plumage, more orangish red on the head and breast, brownish-black bill, and lack of spurs. Juveniles are duller and have the crimson restricted to the top of the head, with a brownish orange head, rust-red markings on a blackish-brown breast, and red tips to the wing coverts.
The species is unlikely to be confused with any other, with its coloration only resembling that of an immature male black partridge (Melanoperdix niger). It can be told apart from the latter by the black partridge's broader black bill.
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