Barbary Partridge (Alectoris barbara)

Family
Phasianidae (Pheasants, Partridges, Turkeys, Grouse)

Size
33 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Reichenow, 1896)

Habitat
Temperate forest, plantations, arable land. From sea-level - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Gibraltar (to UK) (B) (NB), Italy (B) (NB), Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Spain (B) (NB), Tunisia, Western Sahara (B).

Introduced to Portugal (E) (B).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (22)...)

Barbary Partridge (Alectoris barbara) [XC803336]
by Michael John O Mahony from Isla de la Palma (near Hoya Grande), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canarias, Spain (?)

Barbary Partridge (Alectoris barbara) [XC876449]
by Sven Normant from Isla de Lanzarote (near Nazaret), Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (uncertain)

Subspecies
Previously placed in superspecies with Chukar (Alectoris chukar), Philby's Partridge (Alectoris philbyi) and Red-legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa). Now considered to be more distant from the reconstituted superspecies of Przevalski's Partridge (Alectoris magna), Rock Partridge (Alectoris graeca), Chukar (Alectoris chukar) and Philby's Partridge (Alectoris philbyi).

Proposed subspecies theresae and duprezi included respectively in barbara and spatzi.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

barbara (Reichenow, 1896) - Libya and north-western Egypt.
koenigi (Reichenow, 1899) - North-western Morocco.
barbata (Reichenow, 1896) - Northern Morocco and northern Algeria; Sardinia (possibly introduced).
spatzi (Reichenow, 1895) - Southern Morocco, central Algeria and southern Tunisia.

References
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Files:

JPG files for Barbary Partridge (Alectoris barbara) - 10 files

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