Partridge | Facts & Information

Partridge cards can be found in lowland and hilly areas, especially in agricultural areas. Prefers grassy areas with thick bushes.

She is also known as Grey Patridge.

Feeding Partridge

Partridge is an omnivorous bird, eating with pleasure both seeds, fruits, leaves, buds as well as insects and larvae.

Chicks, in particular, are raised with insect larva.

In terms of food the species is in decline due to the treatment of agricultural crops with insecticides and herbicides so that the food is no longer so varied.

Features Partridge

The general color of the plumage is gray, but overall its plumage is an extraordinarily fine color of dots and stripes, so it looks like a painstaking work by hand. Head and goiter are reddish, beak and legs Gray, and around the eyes shows a red circle.

In young specimens up to a year the legs are yellow in color. Sexual dimorphism is poorly evidenced.

A form of difference between the female and the male is that Brown "Horseshoe" existing on the chest, the Rooster being quite pronounced, but there are also older partridges that present this shape, it is true much less contoured.

The male's song is very well known, a low, pleasant chirp. The Rooster sings especially in spring (especially in the evening) making a chii-ir-ic sound. When flying, the birds alert the rest of the card with Cher-IC, crrrip-criip and chit-it screams.

As a way of life The Partridge is a bird faithful to the place of living, each pair occupying a certain territory, which the male, with his fighting nature, defends brilliantly from rivals.

The flight is characterized by frequent flapping of the wings, accompanied by specific noise, after which it hovers through the air until landing. It does not fly more than 200-300 meters. They usually prefer walking, rising in flight only when threatened.

Still on the ground and swimming. In winter on frosty nights they sleep in very tight concentric circles, and at a certain time those at the edge move to the center in this way conserving their body temperature.

It also happens that in the case of winters with a lot of snow they dig tunnels through the snow for inoptation or foraging, digging with their feet until they reach the layer of greenery, in the vast majority of cases the wheat crop.

One of his passions seems to be bathing in dust. The need for water seems to be provided by Juicy food and dew on the leaves, very rarely being observed to drink water from puddles or small streams. At noon they rest at the shelter of the tall Moor, but they have a preference for rest for the leaves of the bostan.

Rightly so, according to many of the experts who studied it, it is considered to be a clever bird. If the pair with the chicks feel threatened by any danger, the parents jump and let down their wings in front of the enemy, imitating a wounded bird until the chicks take shelter and fly away.

As well as the lifespan, the maximum age of Partridge was estimated at 3-4 years.

Breeding Partridge

The Partridge is a monogamous bird, which is kept throughout its life until one of the parteneri.In the case of this species the female is the one who chooses her partner, always from another flock thus avoiding crossbreeding between the close ones.

Partridge reaches sexual maturity at the age of 10 months. The nest is made on the ground in a small recess that it covers with dry grass,tearing them with its beak, with dry leaves and flakes. No particular preference for Nest placement was found.

In the big grass, in the culture of Clover, maracini or other place where he thinks it would be safe, Partridge hen lays 10 to 20 eggs, daily one, which she hatches alone for 24-25 days, the male standing around ensuring the role of guard of the nest.

In case of danger, the female will not leave the nest in flight in order not to betray its location. An interesting feature is that during the brooding period the female does not release miro,and in this way being more protected from possible enemies, and when leaving the nest to feed has the habit of masking it with dry grass.

Laying takes place in May, the chicks at hatching immediately following their mother, after two weeks they are able to fly and at three months they are fully developed.