It is threatened by habitat loss, but at present is categorised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as being of least concern.

[3] Swinhoe initially thought that the bird was injured, but found that the patch was natural after close examination.

[6] A 2015 study suggests that its closest relatives are not in adjacent mainland China, but in south-east Asia, and that they spread along continental shelf areas exposed by lowered sea levels during the ice age.

[4] The Taiwan partridge's voice is a rising and falling series of gurru calls.

[2] It forages in groups of two or three birds, eating earthworms, berries, seeds, seedlings and insects.

It breeds from March to August, depending on the elevation, and it nests in a crevice or under a tree.

The IUCN downlisted it to a least-concern species in 2014 because its population and range are larger than earlier estimates.