Strange red-legged partridge behaviour (1 Viewer)

[Mreed1988]

hello,

For the past 10 days we have had a pair of red-legged partridges going between mine and neighbours garden. Yesterday I noticed 1 of the partridges up on neighbours roof making a lot of noise and looking around as if he had lost the other, but i was unable to see his partner this carriedon for a few hours. It started raining he got off the roof and scurried off somewhere. Later in the evening I saw him across the road making the same noise up on a roof until sun set and then he left the roof and stopped making the noise. I'm worried it maybe because he can't find his partner (may have been attacked 😢) or becausecits the time to nest he's behaving more as a look out and warding others away and can see better up high. Just a horrible feeling that's its my first thought that is reality poor little guy 😔😔 just asking incase people know more about them. Thanks

 

[Andy Adcock]

It sounds as though he's just finding a high spot to declare his territory. Some of this group are mountain dwellers in their natural range and it's not uncommon to see one perched high on an exposed rock, calling.

 

[Mreed1988]

Thanks... thats what I'm hoping he's doing.

 

[Farnboro John]

Also, Red-legged Partridges are not a native species but introduced in large numbers every year to be shot. There are a number of ways they could be implicated in the serious decline of our native Grey Partridge, from direct competition for food and nesting territories through transmission of disease to simply enabling shooters to take Grey Partridges (which are not then replaced through releases) in insupportable numbers by shooting without first identifying the quarry.

This is not a species that should attract your sympathy.

John