Daurian Partridge

The Daurian partridge, also called the steppe partridge or bearded partridge, is a rotund gamebird roughly 28–30 centimetres long. In autumn males weigh about 200–340 grams and females 290–330 grams. Both sexes have a sandy-orange face and long feathers under the beak that form a beard, with the rest of the head and underparts pale slate-grey, a buff line on the chest and a black belly patch. The female has a smaller belly patch and is slightly duller. The song is a higher-pitched, sped-up version of the grey partridge's, a shrill, grating kieerr-ik. (Wikipedia, general species account)

This partridge breeds on open grassland or steppe, including farmland, across much of temperate East Asia from Kyrgyzstan east to China and Mongolia. It is a non-migratory, terrestrial species that forms flocks outside the breeding season, in autumn and winter, and inhabits open country, ideally with some adjacent bushes or open woodland. In parts of its range it overlaps with the very similar grey partridge, with which it forms a superspecies. (Wikipedia, general species account)