[EBB Sightings] Perplexity about Chukar sightings

Charles Waltner wrote:

> This is odd. Earlier in the year I also spotted a Chukar partridge in 
> Oakland, off of Athol Ave. near Lake Merritt. Can anyone comment on 
> this? I assumed it was an escapee from somewhere. Are there wild chukars 
> that live in the East Bay foothills? This doesn't seem possible.

There are always Chukars in the globe cage at the Lake Merritt nature
center (where we're meeting at 9:30 this morning for a GGAS-sponsored
bird walk, free and open to anyone, hint, hint), so one near the lake
might have escaped from there. Though I'm not sure why it'd want to get
out, except maybe too much company....

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