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🐓 Hungarian Partridge

Pheasants & Partridge · breed reference

HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE = GRAY PARTRIDGE = “HUN” — one bird, three names (*Perdix perdix*), pinned here once. The smallest bird in this catalog, established wild across the northern grain belt and prairie provinces, and the classic pointing-dog bird of the plains. THE HUSBANDRY DIFFERENCE FROM EVERYTHING ELSE HERE: it is strictly MONOGAMOUS — pen it in pairs, one cock to one hen, because a harem simply doesn't lay. Both parents raise the brood, and it wants cool: it struggles where a chukar thrives.