Editing Grey partridge (section)

==Distribution==
Widespread and common throughout much of its range, the grey partridge is evaluated as "of Least Concern" on the [[IUCN Red List]] of Threatened Species. However, it has suffered a serious decline in the [[United Kingdom|UK]], and in 2015 appeared on the "Birds of Conservation Concern" Red List.<ref name="BOCC">{{cite web|url=http://www.bto.org/sites/default/files/shared_documents/publications/birds-conservation-concern/birds-of-conservation-concern-4-leaflet.pdf|title=BoCC4 Red List|access-date=2015-12-25|publisher=Birds of Conservation Concern}}</ref> This partridge breeds on farmland across most of [[Europe]] and across the western [[Palearctic]] as far as southwestern Siberia; it is a [[bird migration|non-migratory]] terrestrial species, and forms flocks of up to 30 outside of the breeding season.

It has been introduced widely as a [[Game (hunting)|gamebird]] into [[Canada]], [[United States]], [[South Africa]], [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Long |first=John L. |year=1981 |title=Introduced Birds of the World |publisher=Agricultural Protection Board of Western Australia |pages=21–493}}</ref> A popular gamebird in large areas of North America, it is sometimes known there as "Hungarian partridge" or just "hun".{{cn|date=November 2024}}