Barbary Partridge, Alectoris barbara, is a species of gamebird found in heathland and shrub and unvegetated or sparsely vegetated land ecosystems. It has a predominantly North African distribution, but also occurs in Europe in the Canary Islands and Sardinia (Italy). The species is found in predominantly dry, open country with scrubby cover. It uses steep slopes, rocky areas and arid hillsides, stony terraces, unimproved agricultural land, open or degraded maquis and woodland, including open pine forest (European Red List 2015).

Alectoris barbara has a breeding population size of 7500-20100 pairs and a breeding range size of 34800 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Uncertain in the short term and Uncertain in the long term.

The EU population status for Alectoris barbara is Unknown, as the data reported were not sufficient to assess the population status of the species.