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Red-legged partridge

Grey partridge

Perdix perdix The grey partridge was originally a bird of temperate steppe grasslands. It has adapted readily to open arable landscapes and, accordingly, vastly expanded its range as agricultural development spread westwards across Europe over the last eight millennia. After the last Ice Age, the...

Interreg PARTRIDGE Project

The GWCT is lead partner of a pioneering cross-border North Sea Region Interreg programme project called PARTRIDGE (Protecting the Area’s Resources Through Researched Innovative Demonstration of Good Examples) that will run to 2023. Together with twelve other partner organisations from the Nether...

Red-legged partridge

Alectoris rufa The red-legged partridge (redleg) is not native to Britain, but was successfully introduced to East Anglia in about 1770, using stock from France. Although becoming well established by the end of the century, its spread across Britain was slow and its current distribution was not r...

Partridge Count Scheme

What is the Partridge Count Scheme? The PCS is a free and voluntary scheme run by the GWCT since 1933 to collect information on the annual abundance and breeding success of grey partridges. In 1998 the GWCT was nominated Lead Partner for the Grey Partridge Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) by the UK...

Changes in partridge numbers

For the first 30 years of the Sussex study, the number of grey partridges declined, with a gradual loss across the study area (Figure 1). In 1970, the density of breeding pairs averaged 11.3 pairs per 100 hectares (250 acres). This nearly halved to just under six pairs (5.9) per 100 hectare in 19...

Grey partridge

Grey partridge releasing experiment  Long-term trends in grey partridge abundance  Grey partridge diet and parasite infection  A Sussex success story  Interreg PARTRIDGE Project  Grey partridge winter loss study  Partridges and raptors  Grey partridges and land use in Norfolk  Chick Food Index  ...

Video: The Return of the Grey Partridge

Case study: Grey partridge recovery