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Royston Grey Partridge Recovery Project

What insects do partridge chicks prefer?

Conserving the grey partridge

Contents Download this guide Download as PDF » Explaining the decline, nesting Chick survival Surviving winter and spring Partridge Count Scheme Common questions The grey partridge originated as a grassland bird on the open, largely treeless, steppe. It nests on the ground, hidden in th...

Habitat use and chick diet of grey partridge living on Pennine hill farms

Balgonie Grey Partridge Recovery Project

Balgonie Estate lies just east of Glenrothes, in Fife, and is an open, arable farm of approximately 750 ha. Our project here, to encourage the modest grey partridge population to increase, began in 2014 when we started surveying grey partridge and songbird numbers before habitat changes were impl...

Whitburgh Farms Grey Partridge Recovery Project

Alastair Salvesen and his team at Whitburgh, Midlothian, have a passion for wild grey partridge. When the farm was bought by Mr Salvesen around ten years ago, it was releasing grey partridge. This was stopped and the focus switched to habitat management, supplementary feeding and the legal contro...

Grey partridge

The Sussex Study: 50 years of monitoring an agricultural ecosystem

This article, written by Gillian Gooderham, appeared on the National Geographic website in April 2018 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Sussex Study From inauspicious beginnings in a Sussex barn to policy-changing science, the Sussex Study aims to reverse the decline of wildlife on Britain's fa...

Farmland food webs

Farmland is home to hundreds of plant and thousands of animal species, many of which are highly dependent on each other forming a complex food web. This was first revealed by our early work on the grey partridge in Sussex. The population of grey partridge was partially dependent on the survival r...

Sustainable gamebird releasing

Download this guide Download PDF » Woods used for shooting tend to have greater wildlife biodiversity than unmanaged woods because they have more shrubs, better surrounding hedges and more glades and rides. However, concentrations of pheasants and red-legged partridges can reduce biodiver...