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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ColinD" data-source="post: 1217945" data-attributes="member: 55409">Red-legged Partridge is actually a very good example which I had forgotten about. In my area, very very few Red-legged Partridge breed, and the population is almost certainly not self sustaining. Yet gamekeepers release hundreds every year, and you would have to walk around with your eyes closed not to see one, at least in the north of the borough. I tick them like everybody else does, yet almost certainly the birds I am ticking have been captively bred and have been recently released. By no stretch of the imagination are they tickable. So where in the UK can you tick genuine, self sustaining RLPs and be sure that it has not just been released?</blockquote>