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The Gray Partridge is a portly game bird with a rusty face, tail, streaks down the sides, and a dark belly patch. It walks through agricultural fields and grasslands feasting on seeds. Small groups called coveys forage together year-round and explode into a scratchy, squawking flight when disturbed even at a considerable distance.
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.
The Gray Partridge is a portly game bird with a rusty face, tail, streaks down the sides, and a dark belly patch. It walks through agricultural fields and grasslands feasting on seeds.
Rotund chickenlike bird with salmon-colored face and thick rusty streaks on sides. Look for dark belly patch, which is obvious on male but reduced or lacking on female. In flight, look for bright orangey tail.
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.
Grey Partridges are best seen in winter, when the fields are bare and the birds gather in small groups called ‘coveys’ to feed on seeds, roots and shoots. Their bodies form small mounds which can be mistaken for clods of earth, or even for Brown Hares which often share the same habitat.
Ecology. It is found in the temperate zone, steppe regions and open arable landscapes (Carroll et al. 2020). Its preferred habitat is open, low-intensity mixed farmland and grasslands with small fields and hedges on grassy banks (Potts 1986, Birkan and Jacob 1988, Carroll et al. 2020).
