What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Red-legged Partridge been recorded?

Alectoris rufa occurrence evidence comes from 4,303 records in 11 countries and territories, from 1872 to 2026. Most records come from Spain.

Red-legged Partridge
Red-legged Partridge — Photo (display-sized rendition): Pierre Dalous · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesGalliformesPhasianidaeAlectoris

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

4,303 records across 11 countries and territories, 1872–2026.

Alectoris rufa · GBIF taxon key 2474051

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-08-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: May.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. 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.

Records over time

18722026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Red-legged Partridge has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Red-legged Partridge. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Spain 2,837
United Kingdom 950
Sweden 337
Belgium 98
Portugal 29
France 21
Italy 12
United States 10
Andorra 5
Austria 2
New Zealand 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. 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.