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red-legged partridge in British Englishnouna 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 Examples of 'red-legged partridge' in a sentencered-legged partridge The birds are in fact french red-legged partridge - and very good eating they are too.Some 30 to 35 million of those are pheasants and 5 to 10 million are red-legged partridges.Sometimes, when partridges speed away like this, it is hard to see if they are common partridges or red-legged partridges.But the most populous and obvious of all introduced birds are pheasants and after that, red-legged partridges, another gamebird.Red-legged partridges have also been released. Word lists withred-legged partridge birdImage ofred-legged partridge © Eric Isselee, shutterstock |