Red-legged Partridge

In France and Iberia...naturalized in
England and Wales...is bred for
shooting...sold and eaten as game.

Alectoris rufa

(L 13.2")

Laguna de Medina

Cadiz Province, Spain

09Sept2013

The first day of Christmas,

My true love sent to me

A partridge in a pear tree.

 (first published in England in
1780...thought to be French in
origin)