#Hungarian partridge

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A couple of grey partridge 🧡

[sumbluespruce]

Hungarian partridge

12/26/22 A rare site along the Shoshone

[birdgenetics]

What I'd name every chicken color allele if I got to choose:

This is just for fun. Some gene names are very apt and some are just plain confusing! Some have good names in some regions and poor names in others.

E/Extended Black: Already perfection. Tells you exactly what you are getting.

E^R/Birchen: This one is pretty good but it implies a birch tree, which people typically picture as black and white while gold birchen (which is closer to wild type than silver birchen.) However, some species of birches can have golden bark so maybe those who picture silver birchen when I say "birchen" need to touch up their botanical skills.

e+/Duckwing: Apparently this name is so attrocious fanciers decided to rarely use it! Not good! "Duckwing" is in reference to the wing bay (secondary feathers) on roosters bearing some resemblance to the colored speculum (secondary feathers) on ducks. However, this is not a good distinction as Wheaten and Partridge roosters have identical wing colorations to duckwing. Also, why mention ducks when we are talking about chickens? The relation is tenuous. We could define it based on the down color. How about "Chipmunk"? The resemblance to actual chipmunks is uncanny.

e^Wh Wheaten: I could not improve upon this perfection. Not only does it perfectly match the hens, it matches the chicks, too! They are like the golden wheat.

e^b Partridge: Partridge was named after the down color. And it was perfect. They match Hungarian partridge chicks perfectly. Unfortunately, partridge has been ruined by confusion. Too many people have used "partridge" to describe duckwing (in Europe partridge is duckwing and "Asian Partridge" is partridge.) Plus "partridge" is used to describe concentric lacing which isn't the same as just the partridge gene. I propose "Extended Brown." It is called e^b, not e^p. Plus "Extended Brown" exists in quail and it bears many similarities.

Co/Columbian: Sure why not? No confusing this gene. Lots of people misspell it though. (Columbian, not Colombian.)

Db/Darkbrown/Ginger: Ginger, which is what you call a duckwing bird with the ginger gene, describes the effect perfectly. Unfortunately, Dark Brown, not so much. If the abbreviation was just Gi, it would be so much better.

Pg/Pattern Gene: Yes.

Ml/Melanotic: Melanotic is a melanizer? Novel concept!

Cha/Charcoal: Charcoal is a decent descriptor. But I think "Moorhead" is even better.

Mh/Mahogany: Mahogany is a red enhancer. Mahogany is more of a brown wood. I think "Maroon" is a better descriptor but "Mahogany" sounds more natural so I'll allow it.

Di/Dilute: What does it dilute, exactly? Please be more specific. Oh? It dilutes gold and inhibits black a little? Why not call it "Peach" or something, goodness gracious.

ig/Cream: I've also heard it called "Inhibitor of Gold" but I'll stick to cream, thank you.

Cb/Cb/Cream blond/champagne blond: Perhaps I've hallucinated it but I thought this was called champagne blond, not cream blond. Champagne blond is a good descriptor but there can't be two "creams" so that has got to go.

Si/Silver: As opposed to gold. I like it!

B/Barred: Perfect.

choc/Chocolate: Chocolate is the perfect description, however, I must ask, why is the abreviation so long? "choc"? Really?

I/Dominant White: I mean, its more like codominant white, or something. And it only turns the black white, usually. Maybe "Pyle?"

i^d/Dun: Already perfect, unfortunately people keep calling it "chocolate."

Bl/Blue: I know I've complained about the way "blue" often removes the blue sheen, but I actually do consider it a good description of how the pigment is distributed, and it is used in many species of poultry in the same way.

mo/Mottled: Perfect.

c/Recessive White: Probably the best name anyone has ever concieved.

Lav/Lavender: I think "lavender" is just fine but it seems the APA finds it too flowery and insists on calling it "self blue" even though it is not blue and does a lot more than change the eumelanin to blue. Perhpas taking the approach of calling it "pearl-grey" like continental Europe will have the same effect, but I think it's worth a shot. I guess abbreviating it to "pearl" might help it further, considering how much we Americans like our brevity.

[barry-kent-mackay]

Grey Partridge: Lynn Bogue Hunt.  The species used to be called “Hungarian Partridge” and was introduced as a gamebird into North America.  Hunt was an avid hunter and angler and loved to do game species and hunting scenes, but he shows good depth, good lighting, good composition and biologically accurate poses in this piece.

art by lynn bogue hunt

text by barry kent mackay

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Birthdays 2.6

Beer Birthdays

Henry Miller (1857)

George Wiedemann Jr. (1866)

Brian Ford (1964)

John Foster (1965)

Jay Sheveck (1970)

Erin Fay Glass (1971)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Mike Batt; rock musician (1949)

Bob Marley; reggae musician, singer (1945)

Eric Partridge; lexicographer (1894)

Michael Pollan; journalist (1955)

Adam Weishaupt; German philosopher (1748)

Famous Birthdays

Rick Astley; pop singer (1966)

Nicolaus Bernoulli; Swiss mathematician (1695)

Eva Braun; model, Hitler's mistress (1912)

Robert Brooks; Hooters restaurants founder (1937)

Tom Brokaw; television journalist (1940)

Aaron Burr; politician, U.S. Vice-President (1756)

Natalie Cole; singer (1950)

Alice Eve; actor (1982)

Mike Farrell; actor (1939)

Scipione del Ferro; Italian mathematician (1465)

Anton Fokker; aviation pioneer (1890)

Gayle Hunnicutt; actor (1943)

Károly Kisfaludy; Hungarian poet (1788)

Mary Douglas Leakey; archeologist (1913)

Theodor Lessing; writer (1872)

John Henry MacKay; anarchist (1864)

Patrick MacNee; actor (1922)

Barry Miller; actor (1958)

Kathy Najimy; actor (1957)

Gigi Perreau; actor (1941)

Ronald Reagan; 40th U.S. President (1911)

Axl Rose; rock singer (1962)

Babe Ruth; New York Yankees OF (1895)

Jeb Stuart; confederate calvary commander (1833)

Rip Torn; actor (1931)

Robert Townsend; actor, comedian (1957)

Francois Truffaut; French film director (1932)

Michael Tucker; actor (1945)

Mamie Van Doren; actor (1931)

Karel Wellens; Flemish artist (1889)

Otis Williams; rock musician (1936)

[hoursofreading]

In Dostoyevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov, I told the ornithologist, Father Zossima tells Alyosha, “All is an Ocean. All flows and connects so powerfully that if, in this life, you manage to become more gracious by even a drop, it is better for every bird, child, and animal your life touches than you will ever know. Start praying to birds in an ecstasy! Cherish this ecstasy, however senseless it may seem to people!” So I do. In a desolate, even life-threatening time, a pair of love-inflamed flickers transpierced and remade me as surely as your chee-ups! and Buddhist bowing and hat have remade the peregrine. I’ll thank wild birds, and you too, forever for that. I trust that you now see why a small photo of the hat, in this time of personal passage and great gratitude, would serve as a kind of holy icon for me. The Cornell ornithologist never answered my letter. And he was wise, it turned out, not to do so: for into the vacuum created by his lack of an answer wild birds flew, and have never stopped answering. Like the forty-three Vaux’s swifts that dropped like dead leaves from an autumn dusk into my cold black chimney, grew still, but then thrummed in their sleep, close by the astonished ear I kept putting to the stove vent, as only eighty-six swift-wings can thrum, nonstop through the night. Or like the small black hole in the ice of a desolate, frozen river at which I happened to be gazing when out popped a lone water ouzel who, after a single deep knee-bend, burst into ecstatic, desolation-defying song. Or like the still-smaller black hole in a leafless, frost-blasted cottonwood against which a heartbroken friend, Max, happened to lean on a Montana winter’s walk, and out of which burst, like bees from a June hive, more than a hundred pygmy nuthatches, bequeathing Max, just that fast, an acceptance of heartbreak from which grace, like honey, began to flow. Or like the fourteen Hungarian partridges my rancher friend Tom flushed from buckbrush after a blizzard in twenty-below, who half circled a gulch so frigid Tom feared they’d freeze in midair, only to slam headfirst, wings tight to their bodies, thirty miles an hour, into a fresh snowdrift a hundred yards above him, ffufuf!fuff!fuff!uf!fuf!uff!, to spend the night tucked in twenty-above powder, bequeathing Tom, like a love poem the next day, fourteen tiny snow caves, the insides of which shone with the cold’s own luminous blue. Or like the lone female loon who mistook a wet, moonlit interstate for water and crash-landed on the truck-grooved pavement of the fast lane; loon to whom I sprinted, as a convoy of eighteen-wheelers roared toward her, throwing my coat over her head so she wouldn’t stab me, pulling her to my chest as I leapt from the concrete; loon who, when she felt this blind liftoff, let out a full, far-northern tremolo that pierced, without stabbing, my coat, ribs, heart, day, life. All is an Ocean, she and Father Zossima and the avian choir keep singing as into black holes in trees, truck routes, river ice, frigid hearts, ecstatic birds keep dropping. Till even alone and in darkness, with no special hat, clothes, or wings to help me fly up and feel it, I find myself caught in the endless act of being loved.

The Sun Magazine | Cherish This Ecstasy | By David James Duncan | Issue 391

[logicsolution]

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In Held v. Montana, Young People Sue Montana Over Use of Fossil Fuels#Held #Montana #Young #People #Sue #Montana #Fossil #Fuels

KALISPELL, Mont. — Badge and Lander Busse tromped into the forest behind their house on a snowy Sunday in March, their three hunting dogs in tow. It was in these woods, just outside Glacier National Park, that the teenage boys learned to hunt, fish, dress a deer and pick birdshot from Hungarian partridges. It was also here that the Busse boys grew attuned to the signals of a rapidly warming…

[dearvicme]

In The Arizona Desert, Quail Lure Snowbirds

America’s legion of devout bird hunters spends much of the year training and working gun dogs, so many of them are forever chasing open seasons from the prairies of the Dakotas where sharptails, Hungarian partridge, and pheasants abound; to the grouse and woodcock woods of the Great Lakes and New England; all the way to the deserts of the Southwest that are resplendent with several species of…

[bcfirearmsacademy]

UPLAND GAME BIRD Upland game bird is an American term which refers to non-water fowl game birds in groundcover-rich terrestrial ecosystems above wetlands and riparian zones (i.e. "uplands"), which are commonly hunted with gun dogs (pointing breeds, flushing spaniels and retrievers). https://bcfirearmsacademy.ca/upland-game-bird/ BOOK YOUR CORE EXAM HERE As of 2013 the population of upland game birds such as pheasants had been falling in agricultural states such as Iowa where increased commodity prices for crops such as corn had resulted in reductions in game habitat in acreage set aside in the Conservation Reserve Program. A significant reduction in the number of hunters over the previous 20 years was also reported At least ten states have passed laws wherein there is a definition of "upland game" giving a list of species. These lists are not at all the same, and some of them contain non-avian species. These species are always listed by common name instead of by scientific name thus in some cases it is difficult to tell what actual species the law designates without other information. The following species appear on one or more state lists of "upland game." LIST OF GAME BIRDS American Crow Band-Tailed Pigeon Blue Grouse Chukar Partridge Dove Dusky Grouse Eurasian Collared-Dove Gray Partridge Greater Sage-Grouse Grouse Hungarian Partridge Mourning Dove Partridge Pheasant Pigeon Ptarmigan Quail Ruffed Grouse Sage Grouse Sandhill Crane Sharp-tailed grouse Turkey White-tailed ptarmigan Wild Turkey Woodcock (at BC Firearms Academy - Surrey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmnrSKUu2tc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Hungarian Partridge, Wyoming - Day 3: The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter's Diary | Mark V Peterson

MarkPeterson #TheJourneyWithin #WTA In Part 3, Day 3, Mark Peterson wraps up his time in Wyoming upland hunting with an … source

[panfishonthefly]

Grade #1 Hungarian Partridge Skin

Partridge feathers are the best material available for soft-hackle flies, beards, and collars. These feathers are an essential ingredient for nymph and soft-hackle tiers.

These are top-quality Grade 1 full skins that contain beautifully speckled feathers in a variety of sizes.

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Hun and gun

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 2.6

Beer Birthdays

Henry Miller (1857)

George Wiedemann Jr. (1866)

Brian Ford (1964)

John Foster (1965)

Jay Sheveck (1970)

Erin Fay Glass (1971)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Mike Batt; rock musician (1949)

Bob Marley; reggae musician, singer (1945)

Eric Partridge; lexicographer (1894)

Michael Pollan; journalist (1955)

Adam Weishaupt; German philosopher (1748)

Famous Birthdays

Rick Astley; pop singer (1966)

Nicolaus Bernoulli; Swiss mathematician (1695)

Eva Braun; model, Hitler's mistress (1912)

Robert Brooks; Hooters restaurants founder (1937)

Tom Brokaw; television journalist (1940)

Aaron Burr; politician, U.S. Vice-President (1756)

Natalie Cole; singer (1950)

Alice Eve; actor (1982)

Mike Farrell; actor (1939)

Scipione del Ferro; Italian mathematician (1465)

Anton Fokker; aviation pioneer (1890)

Gayle Hunnicutt; actor (1943)

Károly Kisfaludy; Hungarian poet (1788)

Mary Douglas Leakey; archeologist (1913)

Theodor Lessing; writer (1872)

John Henry MacKay; anarchist (1864)

Patrick MacNee; actor (1922)

Barry Miller; actor (1958)

Kathy Najimy; actor (1957)

Gigi Perreau; actor (1941)

Ronald Reagan; 40th U.S. President (1911)

Axl Rose; rock singer (1962)

Babe Ruth; New York Yankees OF (1895)

Jeb Stuart; confederate calvary commander (1833)

Rip Torn; actor (1931)

Robert Townsend; actor, comedian (1957)

Francois Truffaut; French film director (1932)

Michael Tucker; actor (1945)

Mamie Van Doren; actor (1931)

Karel Wellens; Flemish artist (1889)

Otis Williams; rock musician (1936)

[sumbluespruce]

Hungarian Partridges (Perdix perdix) Two heads then two bodies

4/15/22