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Gray Partridge Sounds

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Montana, June 22, 2015Recorded by Jay McGowan / Macaulay Library
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Vlaanderen, May 28, 2008Recorded by Peter Boesman / Macaulay Library
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Vlaanderen, May 28, 2008Recorded by Peter Boesman / Macaulay Library

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Calls

Gray Partridges have a short, scratchy ternlike call that lasts for less than 1 second. When they flush they give a rapid, scratchy kut, kut, kut.

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