Magpie approaches dead animal as Chukor covey looks on, in Ladakh

From the archive record

Chukor and magpies in the high altitudes of Ladakh, in winter! Chukar (Alectoris chukar) is a Eurasian upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the Rock Partridge, Philby's Partridge and Przevalski's Partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first. This partridge has well marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat. The species has been introduced into many other places and feral populations have established themselves in parts of North America and New Zealand. Magpies are intelligent birds of the corvidae family, including the black and white Eurasian Magpie