---
title: "Gray Partridge"
description: "Perdix perdix — Birds. The grey partridge (Perdix perdix) is a bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/gray-partridge
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Gray Partridge

> Perdix perdix — Birds. The grey partridge (Perdix perdix) is a bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds.

- Scientific name: *Perdix perdix*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Fields & meadows)
- iNaturalist observations: 15678
- Wikidata: [Q26106](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26106)
- iNaturalist taxon: [831](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/831)

## Names

- en: Gray Partridge
- de: Rebhuhn
- es: Perdiz Pardilla
- fr: Perdrix grise
- nl: Patrijs
- pt: Perdiz-cinzenta
- pl: Kuropatwa zwyczajna

## Countries with the most observations

RU (6159), CA (2070), US (922), DE (740), GB (607), UA (549), FR (386), AT (325), IT (259), LT (240), DK (227), CZ (218)

## Summary

The grey partridge (Perdix perdix) is a bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. The scientific name is the Latin for "partridge".

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_partridge

## Photo

![Gray Partridge](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/gray-partridge/medium.jpg)

Photo: Patrascu Lucian-Marius · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69253535

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/gray-partridge?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).