We were on our way across the flat desert area north of Azuz when I called out and thought I had seen a Chukar. We went back and there it was - one of our "target species" at the roadside. And it remained there just so long that we had time to take a series of pictures before it left. This individual has a very light throat area, it should be yellowish white (and distinguishing it from the Rock partridge (Alectoris graeca)). But the small black dots on the lore clearly signal a Chukar.