
Red-legged Partridge
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Bird Family: | Game Birds |
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Conservation status
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.
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