---
title: "Perdiz-chucar"
description: "Alectoris chukar — Aves. The chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar), or simply chukar, is a Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/chukar
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Perdiz-chucar

> Alectoris chukar — Aves. The chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar), or simply chukar, is a Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae.

- Scientific name: *Alectoris chukar*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `mountains` (Montanhas)
- iNaturalist observations: 8691
- Wikidata: [Q194043](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q194043)
- iNaturalist taxon: [846](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/846)

## Names

- en: Chukar
- de: Chukarhuhn
- es: Perdiz chukar
- fr: Perdrix choukar
- nl: Aziatische steenpatrijs
- pt: Perdiz-chucar
- pl: Góropatwa azjatycka

## Countries with the most observations

US (4422), GR (622), IL (482), CA (399), KZ (270), RU (188), CY (173), IN (173), UA (137), CN (112), IR (105), TR (103)

## Summary

The chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar), or simply chukar, is a Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first. This partridge has well-marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat. Native to Asia, the species has been introduced into many other places and feral populations have established…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukar_partridge

## Photo

![Perdiz-chucar](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/chukar/medium.jpg)

Photo: David Bird · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/139571720

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/chukar?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).