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Red-legged Partridge

Irish Name:
Scientific name:
Bird Family: Game Birds
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Conservation status
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Indigenous to South West Europe. Introduced to Ireland with breeding contained mainly to Counties Meath, Kildare and Wexford.

Quite sedentary in dry and arable agricultural land. Favouring habitat with bushy cover.

Similar Species

Grey Partridge

Irish Name:
Patraisc
Scientific name:
Perdix perdix
Bird Family:
Game Birds