female's breast and sides are barred buff and blackish brown, and the abdomen is plain buff. She has a buff face and throat. Some abnormal females may...
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(24–25 in) in length and is generally a chestnut brown bird with a black abdomen, metallic green back, and a short chestnut brown crest. Both sexes resemble...
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is dark brown with glossy green chest, buff thighs, and blackish-brown abdomen and tail coverts. The male is best known for its elongated train, which...
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(Pronolagus randensis), helmeted guineafowl, Swainson's francolin (Pternistis swainsonii), Natal francolin (Pternistis natalensis), southern red-billed hornbill...
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for larger game. In those times, caracals were used to hunt bustards, francolins, and other game birds. They were also placed in arenas with flocks of...
42 KB (4,682 words) - 22:58, 20 December 2024
eagles. Alternate prey is known to have included monitor lizards, toads, francolins, guineafowl and chickens as well as rats and perhaps other mammals. This...
12 KB (1,456 words) - 07:16, 27 May 2024
The call in the breeding season is said to resemble that of the grey francolin of the plains. It has been compared in habit to that of the ptarmigan...
12 KB (1,313 words) - 12:05, 31 December 2023
recorded as preying on small mammals, birds up to the size of a turaco or a francolin, snakes, lizards, frogs, grasshoppers, wasps, beetles and scorpions. Its...
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snakes, lizards, eggs and ground nesting birds such as pheasants and francolins. It is reported to kill cats and poultry. It has been known to feed on...
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Portuguese and Spanish may also have a word final -n (e.g., Portuguese abdómen/abdômen 'abdomen'), and -m (e.g., Spanish tándem 'tandem'), respectively. (Word-final...
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Bible: 1 Kings 26:20, Jeremiah 17:11, and Sirach 11:30 (in the Apocrypha). Francolins and sand partridges are found in the Holy Land. Peacock — A common translation...
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(11 oz) of up to 4,000 g (8.8 lb). Largish ground feeding birds, such as francolins, spurfowls and guineafowls as well as mostly the smaller species of bustards...
70 KB (9,319 words) - 09:17, 18 December 2024
recorded to be taken by jackal buzzards has included adults of birds such as francolins and marsh owls, adult puff adders, adult greater cane rats and largely...
14 KB (2,038 words) - 07:55, 2 September 2024
prey remains. In the Great Rift Valley and Maasai Mara data, the Coqui francolin (Peliperdix coqui) was reportedly the most regularly identified prey and...
122 KB (16,957 words) - 03:58, 18 December 2024
prey items include lizards, snakes, and ground-nesting birds, such as francolins and bustards. It also consumes a large amount of insects, including dung...
66 KB (7,005 words) - 01:06, 28 September 2024
hawk-eagles and several species, including peafowl, bush quail, spurfowl and francolins, are known to be hunted, including both young and adults. Many other birds...
71 KB (9,377 words) - 23:31, 18 December 2024