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red-legged partridge
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red-legged partridge
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) 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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Noun1.red-legged partridge - common western European partridge with red legsred-legged partridge - common western European partridge with red legs
partridge - small Old World gallinaceous game birds
Alectoris, genus Alectoris - a genus of Perdicidae


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We have European bee-eaters, hoopoes (who make a sound like their name sounds), red legged partridges, the white ibis who do us a favour by feeding on worms and bugs along with many others to numerous to mention.
; J BROWN, of Buckingham Rise, Allesley Park, sent in this picture of a sunrise over Coventry city centre (below right) and a red legged partridge that visited their garden for several days recently (below).
Skylarks chirruped above the cold black Lancashire fields, and nervous red legged partridges scooted away at high speed whenever I paused to look at them.
 
 
 
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