#0991 · 🐦 birds

Red-legged Partridge

🇳🇱 Rode Patrijs ·Alectoris rufa

NTnear threatened 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Jerry Lanfear · CC BY 4.0
2. © Olli Pihlajamaa · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Agustín Povedano · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Ján Svetlík · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Daniel Santana · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © Smudge 9000 · CC BY-SA 4.0
8. © xulescu_g · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The red-legged partridge ( Alectoris rufa ) is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. It is sometimes known as French partridge , to distinguish it from the English or grey partridge. The genus name is from Ancient Greek alektoris a farmyard chicken, and rufa is Latin for red or rufous.

base stats

NL sightings 1iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,389iNaturalist observations
weight 20.1 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).