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Vinony's link graph records 198 inbound references to Snow Partridge, and connects out to Himalayas, Galliformes and Odontophoridae.
It sits within the topics Birds described in 1833, Birds of Afghanistan and Birds of Central China.
Vinony links it to 40 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Lerwa lerwa
- Commons category
- Lerwa lerwa
- Commons gallery
- Lerwa lerwa
- taxon common name
- 雪鹑
- litter size
- 3.2
- endemic to
- Sela Pass
- short name
- L. lerwa
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Encyclopedic overview
The snow partridge (Lerwa lerwa) is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae found widely distributed across the high-altitude Himalayan regions of Pakistan, China, India and Nepal. It is the only species within its genus, and is thought to be the most basal member of the "erectile clade" of the subfamily Phasianinae. The species is found in alpine pastures and open hillside above the treeline but not in as bare rocky terrain as the Himalayan snowcock and is not as wary as that species. Males and females look similar in plumage but males have a spur on their tarsus.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Snow Partridge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.