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What is a partridge?

What is a partridge? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any bird of a number of genera in the family Phasianidae, notably in the genera Perdix and Alectoris.
  2. (obsolete, military) A type cannon charge composed of several missiles fired all together, similar to langrage or case-shot. Also a large cannon that shoots stones.
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Thus, he lists as noblest the meat of turtledoves, starlings, doves, quails, pheasants, blackbirds, woodcock, partridge, and chaffinch.
He claims that pheasant and partridge are neither wild nor natural and are not an alternative to factory farmed meat.
A typical farming village in this region attracts tree sparrows, black redstarts, gray partridge, skylarks, and hen harriers.
On the hunting fields, 12,000 birds are harvested annually, consisting of pheasants, chukar partridge and bobwhite quail.
For example, snow partridge and Himalayan monal pheasant are facing local extinction from many valleys.
Jackdaws and wood pigeon show little overall change, but numbers of skylark and grey partridge have declined steeply.

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