I completely agree with this sentiment.
A few years ago, a Chukar visited Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County, and it delighted a great throng of people, not just birders.
It's good to keep in mind that so many of our birds receive human assistance of one sort or another. Those gulls we love to watch?--Where would they be without landfills, fast food restaurant parking lots, and deepwater reservoirs in the Front Range metro region? Or how about the geese we love to ponder?--Their numbers are exploding in large part because of changing agricultural practices in the United States. Hummingbirds at feeders?--Love 'em, but they get by with a little help from their (human) friends. The Merlins at City Park in Denver?--They eat the House Sparrows that eat Malayan tapir manure in the Denver Zoo, and that's fine with me. And even the wildest seeming of vagrants, we're increasingly coming to appreciate, are the "beneficiaries" of anthropogenic climate change, e.g., Northern Fulmars getting to the eastern Pacific "thanks" to melting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.
I'm cool with all those birds. I especially admire the Chukar for being a plucky survivor, for being beloved by the birding community in Broomfield and beyond, and for its inarguable beauty.
Ted Floyd
Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado