Since Red-legged Partridge is a non-native species released in the UK to be shot by hunters, the BTO alerts generated over the recent 25-year period raise no conservation concern. Moreover, BBS data indicate that significant increase has occurred in the UK since 1994. Since 1990, game-bag data show that the numbers released per unit area onto shooting estates have more than doubled since 1990, and the number shot has also about doubled, both as parts of long-term trends evident since the 1960s.

Population changes

Productivity trends

Additional information

• Maps and statistics from British and Irish atlases
• BirdFacts page on species biology
• BirdTrack results