Our latest Autumnwatch report looks at the work being done by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust to boost populations of the English Grey Partridge. Numbers have fallen by up to ninety per ...

The Grey Partridge is 28–32 cm long, 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.

This year, I decided to find out. We have two species of partridge in the UK – the native grey partridge (Perdix perdix) and the introduced red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa). My favourite is ...

The dramatic decline of the grey partridge, once one of Britain's most common birds, can be halted, a conference has been told. The partridge has suffered an 86 per cent decline in the last 30 ...

The wettest summer since detailed records began in 1914 has been disastrous for the grey partridge which is on the brink of extinction in many areas, scientists have warned. In response ...

The grey partridge was once common, but changes in farming and its own tendency to stick up for itself in a fight, saw its numbers dwindle until it was declared extinct in Northern Ireland.