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Grey Partridge, Perdix perdix, Rapphöna

The grey partridge (Perdix perdix), called Rapphöna in Skåne, also known as the English partridge, Hungarian partridge, or hun, is a gameBird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. The scientific name is the Latin for "partridge", and is itself derived from Ancient Greek perdix.

Distribution
Widespread and common throughout much of its range, the grey partridge is evaluated as "of Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. However, it has suffered a serious decline in the UK, and in 2015 appeared on the "Birds of Conservation Concern" Red List. This partridge breeds on farmland across most of Europe into western Asia, and has been introduced widely into Canada, United States, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

A popular gameBird in vast areas of North America, it is commonly known as "Hungarian partridge" or just "hun". They are also a non-migratory terrestrial species, and form flocks outside the breeding season.

Grey Partridge, Perdix perdix, Rapphöna

Range map
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Grey Partridge, Perdix perdix, Rapphöna

Grey Partridge, Perdix perdix, Rapphöna
Distribution map of the Grey Partridge (Perdix perdix)
By IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, species assessors and the authors of the spatial data., CC BY-SA 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29188349


Description
The grey partridge is a rotund bird, 28–32 cm long, brown-backed, with grey flanks and chest. The belly is white, usually marked with a large chestnut-brown horse-shoe mark in males, and also in many females. Hens lay up to twenty eggs in a ground nest. The nest is usually in the margin of a cereal field, most commonly winter wheat.

The only major and constant difference between the sexes is the so-called cross of Lorraine on the tertiary coverts of females—these being marked with two transverse bars, as opposed to the one in males. These are present after around 16 weeks of age when the birds have moulted into adult plumage. Young grey partridges are mostly yellow-brown and lack the distinctive face and underpart markings.

The song is a harsh kieerr-ik, and when disturbed, like most of the gamebirds, it flies a short distance on rounded wings, often calling rick rick rick as it rises.

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Size: 31 cm
Wingspan: 45 - 48 cm
Weight: 45 g
Longevity: 7 Years
Distinctive Feature

• Relatively small headed and chubby
• Orange face and throat
• Green bill
• Grey legs

Male
• White underbelly
• Chestnut horseshoe on lower breast

Female
• Similar to male, but duller
Similar Species

• Red-legged Partridge

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Subspecies
There are eight recognized subspecies:

• P. p. perdix (Linnaeus, 1758) – nominate, found in the British Isles and southern Scandinavia to Italy and the Balkans

• P. p. armoricana Hartert, 1917 – found locally in France

• P. p. sphagnetorum (Altum, 1894) – found in the moors of the northern part of the Netherlands and northwest Germany

• P. p. hispaniensis Reichenow, 1892: Iberian partridge, found from central Pyrenees to northeast Portugal

• P. p. italica Hartert, 1917 – Italian grey partridge, extinct

• P. p. lucida (Altum, 1894) – eastern grey partridge, found from Finland east to Ural Mountains and south to Black Sea and northern Caucasus

• P. p. canescens Burturlin, 1906 – southern grey partridge, found from Turkey east to the South Caucasus and northwest Iran

• P. p. robusta Homeyer and Tancré, 1883 – southeastern grey partridge, found from the Ural Mountains to southwestern Siberia and northwestern China

Status and conservation
Though common and not threatened, it appears to be declining in numbers in some areas of intensive cultivation such as Great Britain, probably due to a loss of breeding habitat and possibly food supplies. Their numbers have fallen in these areas by as much as 85% in the last 25 years. Efforts are being made in Great Britain by organizations such as the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust to halt this decline by creating conservation headlands.

In 1995, it was nominated a Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) species. In Ireland, it is now virtually confined to the Lough Boora reserve in County Offaly where a recent conservation project has succeeded in boosting its numbers to 900, raising hopes that it may be reintroduced to the rest of Ireland.

Conservation status
Grey Partridge, Perdix perdix, Rapphöna
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2.
International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.



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Sighted: (Date of first photo that I could use) 12 May 2019
Ottenby Royal Manor, Ölands Södra Udde


Grey Partridge, Perdix perdix, Rapphöna
Grey Partridge / Rapphöna
12 May 2019 - Ottenby Royal Manor, Ölands Södra Udde

Grey Partridge, Perdix perdix, Rapphöna
Grey Partridge / Rapphöna
28 April 2021 - Segerstad, Öland

Grey Partridge, Perdix perdix, Rapphöna
Grey Partridge / Rapphöna
28 April 2021 - Segerstad, Öland

Grey Partridge, Perdix perdix, Rapphöna
Grey Partridge / Rapphöna
28 April 2021 - Fields around Ossby, Öland

Grey Partridge, Perdix perdix, Rapphöna
Grey Partridge / Rapphöna
28 April 2021 - Fields around Ossby, Öland



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