World Trip Reports
Rare for me, but for this area?
A chukar showed up in my neighbourhood yesterday, and is happily pecking around the lawns on my street in suburban Ottawa, Ontario, and napping on porches and under bushes. He did call from a rooftop at dusk last night. 
All the info I could find on chukars online and in my guidebooks indicates that chukars are a game bird often released by hunters? Is this correct? Seems their normal range is western US, and I have no idea if the bird would be an escapee, or one that somehow made its way a great distance and is a rarity. I did call it into the bird sightings hotline. Can anyone tell me more about chukars? Gorgeous bird, and I fortunately got many photos. I'm getting a little concerned about him hanging around, however. I dont know what his chances of survival would be in a suburban neighbourhood with dogs, kids, cars and people...although he doesnt look too concerned! :)
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I do not know to much about Chukars so will leave that to someone more knowledgable then myself...(basically everyone else in the forum..lol)
All I will say is that at present on my local patch(480 acre public golf course in the middle of a biult up area) we have a red legged partridge..it showed up about 2.5 months ago and has been perfectly alright...The park is heavily used by dog walkers, runners , cyclists and local youths..It seems the bird only comes out in the early morning and late evening to feed .The rest of the day it lays up in an overgrown old lake bed situated in the park...Its seems to be doing extremely well for itself..Whenever I see it I half expect it to be injured or bedraggled but no...It seems to be doing just fine.. 
Thanks for your response, Woundsinger. I guess the bird is considered an escapee here, or at least not too important, as the sighting didnt appear in the updated list of sightings on my local bird report. He was still around yesterday afternoon but I didnt see or hear him last evening. He calmly watched the goings on of the construction equipment (backhoe, cement truck, etc) that was here digging up and replacing my driveway, from the shelter of a car a couple houses away, coming out occasionally to peck the ground. If he would just move a few hundred metres west of here, he would find hundreds of acres of farmland, streams and woods. That has to be better than sleeping under someones rosebush. :)