While in Kidepo Valley NP in northeastern Uganda our guide, William, and ranger, Zachary, took us on an afternoon drive toward the Kidepo Valley, closer to South Sudan, to show us a stone partridge. I'm not sure why they were so keen on it, it is not rare, but perhaps it is just difficult to see. At any rate, we got as far as a ridge strewn with large boulders and William set his phone to broadcast the stone partridge vocalizations and Zachary stayed with my granddaughter and me. The side of the hill was not conducive to easily seeing anything. At the end of what was probably 30 or 40 minutes, I got one poor photo of the back-end of a stone partridge. I think Zachary was a little disgusted at my inability to see the stone partridges darting through the hillside.
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| The stone partridge is standing on the boulder on the top-right side, with its tail to the left. |
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| I like this photo from Wikipedia because the tail looks like the tail I have in my photo. |
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| Illustration from Birds of the World. |
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| Range from Birds of the World. |
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