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This is strictly a ground bird, never likely to be found in pear trees!

British Birds - Pheasants, Grouse, Partridges and Quail

Pheasants, grouse, partridges and quail all come under the umbrella of game birds. Game is any animal hunted for food or not normally domesticated. Game animals are also hunted for sport. The type and range varies in different parts of the world. This will be influenced by climate, animal diversity, local taste and locally accepted view about what can or cannot be legitimately hunted.

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What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of Arturo Nikolai

Grey Partridge

Red Grouse

Red-legged Partridge

Golden Pheasant

Group: Pheasants, Partridges and Quail
Binomial: Alectoris rufa
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Status: Resident Introduced Population
It is an introduced species, brought to the UK from continental Europe, where it is largely found in France and Spain.
Usually seen in groups in open fields.
When disturbed, it prefers to run rather than fly.

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What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of Aconcagua

Black Grouse

Grey Partridge

Western Capercaillie

Golden Pheasant

Group: Grouse
Binomial: Tetrao tetrix
Order: Anatidae
Family: Tetraonidae
Status: Resident Breeding Species
They have a very distinctive and well recorded courtship ritual. At dawn in the spring, the males strut around in a traditional area and display whilst making a highly distinctive mating call.
This process is called a lek.

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What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of Richard Bartz

Common Quail

Red Grouse

Black Grouse

Western Capercaillie

Group: Grouse
Binomial: Tetrao urogallus
Order: Anatidae
Family: Tetraonidae
Status: Resident Reintroduced Population
This species' name is derived from Gaelic meaning 'horse of the woods'.
Their toe rows of small, elongated horn tacks provide a snowshoe effect.
They make clear tracks in the snow.

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What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of Gabriel Kamener

Western Capercaillie

Ptarmigan

Lady Amherst's Pheasant

Red-legged Partridge

Group: Pheasants, Partridges and Quail
Binomial: Chrysolophus amherstiae
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Status: Resident Introduced Population
These are native to south western China and Myanmar, but have been introduced in England and have established a self-supporting, but now declining, feral population in Bedfordshire.

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What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of http://www.marekszczepanek.pl/

Grey Partridge

Ptarmigan

Common Quail

Common Pheasant

Group: Pheasants, Partridges and Quail
Binomial: Perdix perdix
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Status: Resident Breeder And Introduction
A medium-sized, plump gamebird.
Flies with whirring wings and occasional glides, showing a chestnut tail.
It is strictly a ground bird, never likely to be found in pear trees!

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What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of Guerin Nicolas

Golden Pheasant

Common Pheasant

Red Grouse

Common Quail

Group: Pheasants, Partridges and Quail
Binomial: Coturnix coturnix
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Status: Breeding Summer Visitor
Rarely seen it is more usually heard giving its distinctive 'wet-my lips' call.
It is the UK's only migrant gamebird, reaching the northern fringes of its breeding range here.
Eats seeds and insects.

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What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of Philippe Giabbanelli

Common Pheasant

Lady Amherst's Pheasant

Western Capercaillie

Golden Pheasant

Group: Pheasants, Partridges and Quail
Binomial: Chrysolophus pictus
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Status: Resident Introduced Population
The male is very brightly coloured with a yellow crown, red underparts and long finely barred tail.
It is a shy bird, keeping to dark, dense woodland.
Roosts in trees at night.

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What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of Lostajy

Black Grouse

Red Grouse

Common Quail

Western Capercaillie

Group: Grouse
Binomial: Lagopus lagopus
Order: Anatidae
Family: Tetraonidae
Status: Resident Breeding Species
They were the subject of some of the earliest studies of population biology in birds.
It is widely known as the logo of a Scottish whisky and an animated bird is a character in a series of its adverts.

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What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of Jan Frode Haugseth

Common Pheasant

Western Capercaillie

Ptarmigan

Red-legged Partridge

Group: Grouse
Binomial: Lagopus muta
Order: Anatidae
Family: Tetraonidae
Status: Resident Breeding Species
In summer, is a mixture of grey, brown and black above with white belly and wings.
In winter, it becomes totally white except for its tail and eye-patch, which remain black.