Efforts to increase its population in Geneva, its last refuge in Switzerland, were not enough. We haven’t seen her since 2018.
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–Grey Partridge (Perdix perdix) cock in meadow, Germany. (Photo by: Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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The news broke this spring. The gray partridge has added to the list of animal species that have disappeared from Geneva, and in this case also from Switzerland. The small population that lived at the end of the lake was indeed the last in the country. While two breeding pairs had still been found in the canton in 2018, no wild individual was observed in 2019. This is why the Swiss Ornithological Institute, which considers a reappearance of the species unlikely, finally had to stop resolve to declare the gray partridge extinct at the national level. Efforts to increase its workforce have not been sufficient.
