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A partridge is a medium-sized galliform bird in any of several genera, with a wide native distribution throughout parts of Europe, Asia and Africa. Several species have been introduced to the Americas. They are sometimes grouped in the Perdicinae subfamily of the Phasianidae (pheasants, quail, etc.).
Partridges are game birds. Most species are found on continents other than North America. The Hungarian Partridge of Europe was originally known as the Gray Partridge. It was introduced into North America and is now a common game bird of the northwestern US and western Canada, with small pockets of partridges found in the east.
What is a partridge? Plump, midsize birds with curved bills, partridges live in a variety of habitats around the world, including forests, grasslands, and rocky plains.
The Partridge is a relatively small bird that usually lives on the ground. Researchers group these birds in the Phasianidae family along with pheasants, grouse, and quails. They are usually between the larger pheasant and the smaller quail in size.
The grey partridge is a rotund bird, 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.
Partridge, any of many small game birds native to the Old World and belonging to the family Phasianidae (order Galliformes). They are larger than quails, with stronger bills and feet. (For New World birds erroneously called partridges, see grouse; quail. For dwarf partridges of India called bush.
Because of its popularity as a gamebird in Europe, the Gray Partridge was brought to North America as early as the 1790s, although it was not really established here until later. It has been most successful on the northern prairies, where it often does very well in farm country.
