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

We could see also prodigious numbers of the ghatta or red-legged partridge flying northward or settling on the edge of the desert.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 428 Volume 17, New Series, March 13, 1852 by William Chambers

The Greek partridge is "a fine red-legged bird, much larger than our red-legged partridge, and very much better eating, with white flesh, and nearly as heavy as a pheasant."

From History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson

On the coast of Karamania the ibex is to be found in considerable quantities; the red-legged partridge and the francolin are also very abundant, and give capital sport.

From Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha by Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden

All that it needs to learn is how to perch in a tree, an art which the red-legged partridge possesses.

From The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish