By Frits van der Meer from Utrecht, Nederland (barbarijse patrijzen) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Europe and Africa. North Africa, Gibralter and the Canary Islands.
Least Concern
NBN Atlas has 215 records as at end Dec 2024, all of them restricted to the vicinity of Cheshire and South Lancashire. Map Here
The records show an overall decline and the species may have disappeared now.