partridges in English

noun
1
a short-tailed game bird with mainly brown plumage, native to Eurasia.
Raptors are known to prey on game species, such as quails, partridges , pheasants and rabbits.
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1. Foxes, hares, rails, partridges, snipes, quails, thrushes, Beccaficos and ortolans existed in abundance in the 1760s according to Giovanni Mariti

2. Blackhead disease (histomoniasis) is an important poultry disease that affects turkeys, chickens, and game birds such as partridges, pheasants, and quail.

3. According to Franciszek Ząbecki, the local station master, Eupen often killed prisoners by "taking shots at them, as if they were partridges".

4. While the Partridges Bantered, the Cowsills imploded--the band, consisting of brothers Billy, Bob, Barry, John and Paul, sister Susan and mother Barbara, was …

5. The red rail was long known only from a few contemporary descriptions referring to red "hens" and names otherwise used for grouse or partridges in Europe, as well as the sketches of the travellers Pieter van den Broecke and Sir Thomas Herbert from 1617 and 1634.

6. Use "just the same as " in a sentence Finally the negro had grown up and had Compassed his ambition: he could shoot partridges flying just the same as a white man, was a white man except for a trifling difference in color; and he could kill more birds, too, three times