What is this gray bird that has black stripes on the side and around the head?
The bird in this picture is mostly gray but has black and white stripes on the flank area. It also has a white head, red beak and red-rimmed eye. The head is outlined with a black stripe which goes across the face.
What is the name of the bird?
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That is a Chukar partridge. For more information I would suggest the wikipedia article.
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According to this page (cache here) it's a Chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar):
The Chukar (Alectoris chukar) is a Eurasian upland game bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. Its native range in Asia from Pakistan and Kashmir, India and Afghanistan.
Wikipedia also has an article about it:
This partridge has well marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat. The species has been introduced into many other places and feral populations have established themselves in parts of North America and New Zealand. This bird can be found in parts of Middle East.
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