Updated:
May 2, 2019
Steve
Taylor came home this week to find an unusual looking bird — rotund with orange
eyes and beak — pecking away at his front lawn in southeast Edmonton.
The bird
is believed to be a chukar, a type of partridge introduced as a game bird in
Canada during the 1920s.
“From 5
o’clock to about 9 or 9:30, it was still on our front lawn and it appeared to
be digging a little bit in one of our planter boxes and may be nesting or
something, but it didn’t stick around after that,” said Taylor earlier this
week.
Dale
Gienow, who heads up WILDNorth (formerly the Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of
Edmonton), said chukars are often farmed as game birds or for meat, but it is
not unusual for one of them to fly the coop.
“Every
year we get one or two of these guys that get brought in and people are like,
‘What the heck is this, this isn’t supposed to be around here,’” said Gienow.
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