Pheasants and Partridges (Phasianidae)
Barbary Partridge (Alectoris barbara) - HBW 2, p. 486
French: Perdrix gambra
German: Felsenhuhn
Spanish: Perdiz Moruna
Taxonomy: Perdix Barbara Bonnaterre, 1792, no locality = Morocco.
Previously placed in superspecies with A. chukar, A. philbyi and A. rufa; now considered to be more distant from the reconstituted superspecies of A. magna, A. graeca, A. chukar and A. philbyi. Proposed races theresae and duprezi included respectively in barbara and spatzi. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- koenigi (Reichenow, 1899) - NW Morocco.
- barbara (Bonnaterre, 1792) - N Morocco and N Algeria; Sardinia (possibly introduced).
- spatzi (Reichenow, 1895) - S Morocco, C Algeria and S Tunisia.
- barbata (Reichenow, 1896) - Libya and NW Egypt.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Three birds on a perch, then jumping down Locality Rabat Zoo, Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer Region, Morocco
Josep del Hoyo 7 April 2007 3 years ago 29 sec 3.5 -
Two birds on a perch, then one of them flying down Locality Rabat Zoo, Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer Region, Morocco
Josep del Hoyo 7 April 2007 3 years ago 40 sec 2.8
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The bird is quite common in Sardinia
Locality Sardinia, Italy (ssp barbara)
raniero massoli-novelli 1 June 2008 1 year ago 4.2 -
An adult bird
Locality Gennargentu Massif, Sardinia, Italy
raniero massoli-novelli 1 February 2010 1 year ago 3.8 -
A bird in alarm in front of my hide
Locality Gennargentu Massif, Sardinia, Italy
raniero massoli-novelli 1 August 2003 1 year ago 3.4 -
adult
Locality Cagliari, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy
Massimiliano Dettori 20 April 2008 1 year ago 2.7 -
Running on roadside
Locality Zagouan National Park, Tunisia (ssp spatzi)
Photo-ay 29 February 2008 2 years ago 2
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Calls of a bird taking flight (from a Raven) Locality Barranco de la Torre, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
(ssp koenigi)
Stuart Fisher 8 March 2008 2 years ago 3.5
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