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The red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa) is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. It is sometimes known as French partridge, to distinguish it from the English or grey partridge. The genus name is from Ancient Greek alektoris a farmyard chicken, and rufa is Latin for red or rufous. [2]
The chukar readily interbreeds with the red-legged partridge and rock partridge. The practice of breeding and releasing captive-bred chukar and hybrids between chukar and red-legged partridge has been banned in the United Kingdom, as it is a threat to red-legged partridge populations. [3] [4]
Rock partridge; Red-legged partridge; Barbary partridge; Houbara bustard; Red-necked nightjar; Western swamphen; Mediterranean gull; Yellow-legged gull (be) Audouin's gull (be) European storm-petrel (be) Band-rumped storm petrel (be) Monteiro's storm petrel (be) Cape Verde storm-petrel (be) Cory's shearwater (be) Scopoli's shearwater (be) Cape ...
Chukar Patridge from United Arab Emirates. The chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar), or simply chukar, is a Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae.It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first.
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Galliformes / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkeys, chickens, quail, and other landfowl.Gallinaceous birds, as they are called, are important in their ecosystems as seed dispersers and predators, and are often reared by humans for their meat and eggs, or hunted as game birds.
About 383 red-legged partridges were estimated to be hunted annually in one study area of southwestern Spain. [ 94 ] [ 8 ] [ 106 ] In the large Spanish study of Catalonia , French study of Provence and in southwest Portugal , the red-legged partridge made up 9.57%, 11.6% and 17.2% of the diet by number, respectively.
A. b. barbata (Reichenow 1896) (Cyrenaician Barbary partridge) Red-legged partridge, Alectoris rufa (Linnaeus, 1758) LC. A. r. rufa (Linnaeus 1758) (northern/French red-legged partridge) A. r. hispanica (Seoane 1894) (North Iberian red-legged partridge) A. r. intercedens (Brehm 1857) (South Iberian/Balearic red-legged partridge) Genus Ophrysia ...