Grey partridge | 台北市立動物園資訊網

Thegreypartridge(Perdixperdix),alsoknownastheEnglishpartridge,Hungarianpartridge,orhun,isagamebirdinthepheasantfamilyPhasianidaeofthe ...

Species of bird

The grey partridge (Perdix perdix), also known as the grey-legged partridge,[2]English partridge, Hungarian partridge, or hun, is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. The scientific name is the Latin for "partridge", and is itself derived from Ancient Greek perdix.[3]

The grey partridge is a rotund bird, brown-backed, with grey flanks and chest. The belly is white, usually marked with a large chestnut-brown horse-shoe mark in males, and also in many females. Hens lay up to twenty eggs in a ground nest. The nest is usually in the margin of a cereal field, most commonly winter wheat.

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The only major and constant difference between the sexes ...