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Rock Partridge Alectoris graeca
Status.
Category E
Native Range
Europe and Asia. The Alps, central Italy and Sicily, Greece, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia.
Conservation Status
Near Threatened
British Occurrence
NBN atlas has 11 records as at end 2024. Map Here.
This species and the very similar and once more common Chukar were released for shooting until 1993 since when it has been illegal to do so. Releases may still happen, and there may be surviving birds in the wild along with hybrids between these two and possibly Red-legged Partridge but the likelihood is that Rock Partridge and Chukar are in decline in Britain. Like Chukar, the NBN map shows a concentration around Cheshire.
