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

One new bird only has been introduced into England since the pheasant—the red-legged partridge which seems to be fairly established in some districts, not to the entire satisfaction of sportsmen.

From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard

A woodcock or red-legged partridge are occasionally seen; but few quadrupeds are met with, and the larger and fiercer kinds are rarely known to occur.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various

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

Its most common application in India is to the Himalayan red-legged partridge, much resembling on a somewhat larger scale the bird so called in Europe.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry