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[[Image:Red-legged_Partridge2.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Photo by nigelblake<br/>Location: Old Warden, Bedfordshire, UK]] | [[Image:Red-legged_Partridge2.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Photo by nigelblake<br/>Location: Old Warden, Bedfordshire, UK]] | ||
==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
+ | Light brown back, grey breast and buff belly, white face, black gorget, rufous-streaked flanks and red legs. | ||
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+ | The call is ''ka-chu-chu''. | ||
==Distribution== | ==Distribution== | ||
+ | [[France]], [[Iberia]] and now naturalised having been introduced to southern [[England]]. | ||
==Taxonomy== | ==Taxonomy== | ||
==Habitat== | ==Habitat== | ||
+ | Dry lowlands, farm land, stony areas. | ||
==Behaviour== | ==Behaviour== | ||
+ | 10-16 smooth, glossy, yellowish-white with reddish-buff or greyish markings eggs are laid in a ground nest and are incubated for 23-25 days. | ||
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+ | Its diet includes seeds, but insects are taken when young. | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
{{GSearch|Alectoris+rufa}} | {{GSearch|Alectoris+rufa}} | ||
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Revision as of 14:42, 22 November 2007
- Alectoris rufa
Identification
Light brown back, grey breast and buff belly, white face, black gorget, rufous-streaked flanks and red legs.
The call is ka-chu-chu.
Distribution
France, Iberia and now naturalised having been introduced to southern England.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Dry lowlands, farm land, stony areas.
Behaviour
10-16 smooth, glossy, yellowish-white with reddish-buff or greyish markings eggs are laid in a ground nest and are incubated for 23-25 days.
Its diet includes seeds, but insects are taken when young.