Red-legged Partridge egg

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Red-legged Partridge egg

Image: © Dave Dunford Taken: 17 Jun 2007

I found this (cold) egg lying on the little-used footpath between Old Bewick Church and Bewick Folly. My identification is circumstantial - it was smaller than a Pheasant egg (with which I'm familiar) and I saw several Red-legged Partridges in the area.

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Image Location

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Latitude
55.496513
Longitude
-1.893765