Birds appearance reminiscent of pigeons. Build dense, short neck and legs. V-shaped tail, or even stretched to tip. Wings long, sharp, tailored to the fast long flights, essential for regular flights to watering in dry steppes and arid deserts - typical habitat Ryabko. Lifestyle exclusively ground; good walk and run; rear finger needed in the wood lifestyles, the Ryabko very little or even no, a sadzhey srosshiesya fingers and have a solid horny sole. Jacks on the ground, deferring 2-4 motley eggs. In other than pigeons, chicks Ryabko covered with thick down and leave the nest shortly after hatching. Parents bring them water zobu or namokshem operenii abdomen. The food - seeds and insects. In the fauna of Russia squad presented to family Ryabkovye Pteroclidae (Shtegman, Ivanov, 1978).

Besides mentioned in the list of species Sadzhi Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Pallas, 1773), the fauna of Russia are:

Chernobryuhy ryabok Pterocles orientalis (L., 1758)
Belobryuhy ryabok Pterocles alchata (L., 1776).

In the former Soviet Union meets Tibetan sadzha Syrrhaptes tibetanus Guold, 1850

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