#1199 · 🐦 birds

Barbary Partridge

🇳🇱 Barbarijse Patrijs ·Alectoris barbara

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © FritsM · CC BY 4.0
2. © Frits van der Meer from Utrecht, Nederland · CC BY 4.0
3. © Carmelo López Abad · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Wolfgang Bettighofer · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · CC BY 4.0
6. © cobal · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 38690 Santiago del Teide, Prowincja Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Hiszpania:© Maksymilian Wojtkiewicz · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Guelmim, Morocco:© Xavier Rufray · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Melilla, España:© Miguel · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Melilha, ML, ES:© jhennif · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Barbary partridge ( Alectoris barbara ), is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds Native to North Africa.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,744iNaturalist observations
weight 19.6 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
1,744 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 20 g.
Scientifically named by Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre in 1792 (234 years ago).