Editing Partridge (section)

==Cultural references==
According to Greek legend, the first partridge appeared when [[Daedalus]] threw his apprentice, [[Talos (inventor)|Talos]], off the sacred hill of [[Athena]] in a fit of jealous [[Rage (emotion)|rage]]. Supposedly mindful of his fall, the bird does not build its nest in the trees, nor take lofty flights and avoids high places.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5nvuxnsmS8MC&pg=PA1760 | title=Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air | publisher=HarperCollins | date=2013 | access-date=16 April 2013 | author=Holmes, Richard | pages=1760| isbn=9780007467259 }}</ref>

As described by medieval scholar [[Madeleine Pelner Cosman]], medical practitioners in the [[Middle Ages]] recommended partridge as a food of love: They suggested that "Partridge was superior in arousing dulled passions and increasing the powers of engendering. Gentle to the human stomach, partridge stimulated bodily fluids, raised the spirits, and firmed the muscles."<ref name="Cosman">{{cite journal |last1=Cosman |first1=Madeleine Pelner |title=A Feast for Aesculapius: Historical Diets for Asthma and Sexual Pleasure |journal=Annual Review of Nutrition |date=1 July 1983 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=1–34 |doi=10.1146/annurev.nu.03.070183.000245 |pmid=6357233 |url=https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.nu.03.070183.000245 |access-date=24 December 2021 |issn=0199-9885}}</ref>

Probably the most famous reference to the partridge is in the Christmas carol, "[[The Twelve Days of Christmas (song)|The Twelve Days of Christmas]]".<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2012/1126/12-days-of-Christmas-cost-How-much-is-a-partridge-in-a-pear-tree | title='12 days of Christmas' cost: How much is a partridge in a pear tree? | newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor | date=November 26, 2012 | access-date=8 May 2014 | author=The Associated Press}}</ref>  The first gift listed is "a partridge in a [[pear]] tree", and these words end each verse. Since partridges are unlikely to be seen in pear trees (they are ground-nesting birds)<ref>{{cite web |title=Do partridges occur in pear trees? |url=https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/what-can-you-tell-us-about-the-habitat-associations-of-partridges-and-in-particular-whether-pear-trees-are-ever-involved/ |website=All About Birds |access-date=24 December 2021 |date=20 December 2009}}</ref> it has been suggested that the text "a pear tree" is a corruption of the French "''une perdrix''" (a partridge).<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A1k7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT55 |last=Lawson-Jones |first=Mark |date=2011 |title=Why Was the Partridge in the Pear Tree? |publisher=The History Press |page=55|isbn=9780752477503 }}</ref>

The partridge has also been used as a symbol that represents [[Kurds|Kurdish]] nationalism. It is called ''Kew''. Sherko Kurmanj discusses the paradox of symbols in Iraq as an attempt to make a distinction between the Kurds and the Arabs. He says that while Iraqis generally regards the palm tree, falcon, and sword as their national symbols, the Kurds consider the oak, partridge, and dagger as theirs.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kurmanj |first1=Sherko<!--This author doesn't correspond with the listed chapter author on WorldCat?--> |chapter=The Roots of Modern Kurdish Nationalism |title=Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland |editor1-last=Bengio |editor1-first=Ofra |date=2014 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-75813-1 |pages=96}}</ref>