Red-Legged Partridge

Alectoris rufa


Classification

  • Order : Galliformes
  • Family : Phasianidae
  • Genus : Alectoris
  • Species : rufa

Binomial name

  • Linnaeus, 1758

biometrics

  • Size : 38 cm
  • Wingspan : 47 to 50 cm
  • Weight : 391 to 514 g

Distribution


Vocalisation

XC : Stanislas Wroza

The calls and songs of the Red-legged Partridge are not easily transcribed phonetically. The best is to refer to the recordings on the site xeno-canto
https://xeno-canto.org/species/Alectoris-rufa

To learn more.


IUCN CONSERVATION STATUS


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IDENTIFICATION

The Red-legged Partridge is larger and more colorful than its cousin the Gray Partridge. From a distance, the adult appears as a large warm brown bird with a distinctive head. Its four-colored head is indeed remarkable. The beak and the turn of the eye are red-coral. The throat and the white cheeks are surrounded by black. Two white bands go from the forehead to the nape of the neck over the eyes. They border an earth colored top band. The neck and the top of the chest are spotted with black and white. The lower part of the breast is light grey and the belly is russet brown. The flanks are clearly vertically barred. The legs are red. The sexes are similar, the male is simply stronger than the female.
The wings, short and robust, allow a powerful and fast vibrating flight, even if the bird prefers to flee the danger by running. The legs are indeed rather long and strong and particularly well adapted to the walk in open and uneven ground.

HABITAT

The red-legged partridge lives in dry, open or semi-open, cultivated or uncultivated environments, often on slopes. It can be found in the following environments: scrubland, bushy lawns, shrubby uncultivated slopes, dry meadows, crops, vineyards, wastelands, limestone or sandy moors, plantations, linear edges, etc. The Mediterranean climate is particularly suitable for it. It avoids the closed forest environment as well as the wetlands.

Threat – protection

The species is not considered threatened at the moment. Nevertheless, in relation to its historical distribution, it has disappeared from Brittany, western and southern Switzerland or the Rhineland in Germany. Hunting is locally an important parameter in the demography of the species, for example in Portugal. The fragmentation of the available habitat by cultivation or urbanization also plays a negative role.

La Gallerie

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15 walls

Place

14-16 Penpoll Road,
London

Fresque

Hummingbird by Claire Ward Thornton

Par

Claire Ward-Thornton

Oiseau

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Place

Aknīste – Gārsene – Ausmas,
LV-5218 Gārsene,
Lettonie Zemgale

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Par

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Oiseau

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Bruxelles Belgique

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Par

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Oiseau

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Place

Jarrestraße 20,
22303 Hamburg,
Allemagne

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COMMON KESTREL

Par

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Oiseau

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Place

Lisbonne,
Portugal

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Par

Tatiana Saum

Oiseaux

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Place

Kišpatićeva ul. 12,
10000,
Zagreb,
Croatie

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Par

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Oiseau

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Place

1 Boulevard de Dresde,
67000 Strasbourg,
France Grand Est

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Par

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Place

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1000 Ljubljana,
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Par

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Oiseau

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Place

Roodborststraat 18,
3083 WB Rotterdam,
Pays-Bas

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Par

Marloes de Kiewit

Oiseau

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Place

35 Rue du Général Leclerc92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

Fresque

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Par

Mantra

Oiseaux

Common Kingfisher, Barn Swallow, European Goldfinch, Eurasian bullfinch, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.

Place

Place Seigneur de Monlezun,
Sempesserre

Fresque

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Par

Adèle Renault

Oiseau

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Place

Ss Cyril & Methodius 44,
Skopje 1000,
Macédoine du Nord

Fresque

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Par

Dorotej Neshovski

Oiseau

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Place

2 Place des Marseillaises,
Marseille

Fresque

6 Mediterranean and American birds

Par

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Oiseaux

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Place

299 Avenue de l’Adour,
Anglet

Fresque

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Par

MioSHe

Oiseau

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Place

84 Rue du Chemin Vert,
Boulogne-sur-Mer

Fresque

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Par

Telmo Miel

Oiseau

Common Kestrel