partridge

Hunters pay big money to enter the grounds, but they are given express instructions to focus on deer and partridge, and leave the felines well alone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

The organisation said that was because gamekeepers are trying to protect their grouse, pheasants and partridge - and the profits they bring.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024

One X user wrote they were “glad that olivia rodrigo and louis partridge are finally dating people their age and not weirdos in their late twenties who think it’s okay to date teens.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023

While many cultures and individuals still preferred slender women and muscular men, others idealized being "plump as a partridge" as indicative of both health and wealth.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2022

She rose in a flutter, like a partridge while the hawk is over, and plucked at her skirt.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

From the passenger seat, I often spotted rabbits fleeing down dirt roads and scampering under bushes, many joined by red-legged partridges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Weeks later, the disease was again confirmed at a commercial gamebird premises near Wrexham, containing more than 20,000 pheasants and partridges.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

The royal family’s 20,000-acre country estate in Norfolk, where Queen Elizabeth II enjoyed spending Christmas and shooting partridges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

Ornithologists kept finding that birds that rely on insects for food were in trouble: eight in 10 partridges gone from French farmlands; 50 and 80 percent drops, respectively, for nightingales and turtledoves.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2018

The only alarm came when they startled four partridges, which whirred away over the hedge to the west and sailed down, spread-winged, into the field beyond.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams