Partridge
The Grey Partridge is native to the UK and many other European countries. Whilst this iconic farmland bird was once common in our countryside, reduced habitat availability and quality has dramatically reduced their numbers over the last half century. However, on shooting estates and farms where appropriate habitat management and predator control practices are implemented, populations of grey partridges can still be very high and even provide a harvestable surplus in some years. In many parts of the UK, however, they have now unfortunately become locally extinct. For this reason, many landowners and farmers are now trying reintroduce grey partridges after improving habitats on their land through government environmental schemes.
PERDIX has a has been involved in many grey partridge reintroduction projects across the UK and Europe. Our Managing Director, Dr. Dave Butler, has a particular interest in game bird ecology and conservation and so we often find ourselves working with, or supplying equipment to, landowners, farmers and gamekeepers involved in game bird reintroduction projects around the world. We initially began extensively rearing grey partridges specifically for reintroduction projects in 2007, whereby the life cycle of the bird is replicated as closely as possible in captivity. Our family broods have now re-established wild populations on farms and estates from Scotland to Hungary. For more information please visit www.wildgreys.com.
If you require any further information regarding game bird management please do not hesitate to contact us.
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