Chukar Birds wrestling attracts large audience

Chukar Birds wrestling is very popular in Ranya town, Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan, Iraq, and is held on Saturdays and Tuesdays in these months of the year.

These competitions attract amateur hunters in the region, and sometimes amateurs from outside Iraq participate too, where a large crowd gathers from inside and outside the city with cheers and shouts, waiting for the loser bird to escape and the winner to survive.

The owner of the winner bird can sell them at prices ranging from one to three thousand dollars.