#1191 · 🐦 birds

Rock Partridge

🇳🇱 Steenpatrijs ·Alectoris graeca

NTnear threatened 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © dimitriskokkinidis · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © hristovskis · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © jespermm · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Kärnten, AT:© Tobias Gratzer · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Sicily, IT:© Karol Tabarelli de Fatis · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 73500 Villarodin-Bourget, France:© Léo Roumieu · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Ticino, CH:© Frank · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Saint-Jean-de-Belleville, 73440 Les Belleville, France:© simondjp · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Piemonte, IT:© Davide Diana · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The rock partridge ( Alectoris graeca ) is a gamebird in the pheasant family, Phasianidae, of the order Galliformes (gallinaceous birds).

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,286iNaturalist observations
weight 700 gadult, up to
threat NTnear threatened

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.
2,286 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 700 g.
Scientifically named by Carl Friedrich August Meisner in 1804 (222 years ago).