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Where does the Red-legged Partridge live?

Alectoris rufa has 462,085 records in 57 countries and territories, from 1574 to 2026. Most records come from Spain.

Red-legged Partridge
Red-legged Partridge — Pierre Dalous / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesGalliformesPhasianidaeAlectoris

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Spain 188,350
France 107,445
United Kingdom 93,331
Portugal 67,670
Italy 1,905
Sweden 538
Belgium 365
Denmark 185
Ireland 179
United States 171
Norway 163
Germany 155
Finland 148
Russia 141
Greece 131
Poland 130
Netherlands 117
Ukraine 98
Andorra 92
Isle of Man 89
Iceland 54
Romania 50
Canada 46
Hungary 42
Austria 37
Belarus 37
Czechia 37
Croatia 36
Bulgaria 35
New Zealand 34
Latvia 33
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 29
Lithuania 27
Switzerland 24
Estonia 23
Serbia 23
Bosnia & Herzegovina 19
Slovakia 18
Moldova 13
Türkiye 10

Showing the top 40 of 57 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.