red-legged partridge

British  

noun

1. a partridge, Alectoris rufa , having a reddish tail, red legs and bill, and flanks barred with chestnut, black, and white: common on farmlands and heaths in SW Europe, including Britain

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red-legged partridge

Gordon Linton snapped this red-legged partridge: “I followed this bird as he was eating grit from the road,” he said.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2013

After she had had Tom several years, a red-legged partridge called Bill, brought from France, was given to her.

From Stories of Animal Sagacity by Weir, Harrison

The larger birds are the bittern, great and small bustard, eagle, francolin, goose; giant, grey and red-legged partridge, sand grouse, pelican, pheasant, stork and swan.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

We saw nothing of the red-legged partridge or the Tetraonidae, reported to be common.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

In appearance this is very like the French or red-legged partridge, to which it is related.

From Birds of the Indian Hills by Dewar, Douglas