[Bird]: Red-legged Partridge

Red-legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa)

(Bird: Phasianidae)

20th October, 2014. Needs Ore Nature Reserve, New Forest (Hampshire-UK).

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Notes:

A relatively common bird in the UK in extensive farmlands and meadow habitats, but generally shy and hidden in grass. They are most often seen on the roadside, or indeed in the road itself, when they cross or forage alongside. Similar in appearance to both the rock partridge and the chukar.

I have seen this species in:

• Europe (GB)

The first time I recorded this species:

18th June, 2005 at Old Winchester Hill (UK) is my earliest record of this species, and indeed one of the earliest if not the earliest bird records I have.