#0706 · 🐦 birds
Gray Partridge
🇳🇱 Patrijs ·Perdix perdix
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © patrickgoa · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Gabi Rusu · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Erik Eckstein · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Liam Hutcheson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © DR · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. © Kuzey Işık · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © nature_nizhnekamsk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © Михаил · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The grey partridge ( Perdix perdix ), also known as the English partridge , Hungarian partridge , or hun , is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. The scientific name is the Latin for "partridge", and is itself derived from Ancient Greek perdix .
base stats
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
- Spotted 152 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 16,008 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Gray Partridge
- Nederlands
- Patrijs
- scientific name
- Perdix perdix
- class
- Aves
- order
- Galliformes
- family
- Phasianidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 152
- sightings in Europe
- 9,483
- sightings worldwide
- 16,008
- GBIF records in NL
- 137,098
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 831, Wikidata Q26106, GBIF 2473958, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.