About Alectoris barbara (Bonnaterre, 1790)
The Barbary partridge (Alectoris barbara) is a rotund bird. It has a grey-brown back, a grey breast, and a buff belly. Its face is light grey, with a broad reddish-brown gorget. It has rufous-streaked white flanks and red legs. When disturbed, it prefers to run rather than fly, but it will fly a short distance on rounded wings if needed. It is closely related to the red-legged partridge, its western European equivalent. It is similar in appearance to the red-legged partridge, but differs in its head and neck pattern. Its song is a noisy tre-tre-tre-tre-tre-cheeche-tre-tre-tre. The native range of the Barbary partridge is North Africa. The subspecies barbara has been introduced to Gibraltar, and subspecies koenigi has been introduced to the Canary Islands. This species has also been introduced to continental Portugal and Madeira, though there are no recent records of it on Madeira. Barbary partridges are also present in Sardinia.
