New York · UplandGray (Hungarian) partridge

Gray (Hungarian) partridge has no wild population anywhere in New York today, and there is no sub-state region that can honestly be described as a current hotspot — closed, researched, and empty for the same reason as an extirpation record rather than a genuine uniform-statewide case. New York was part of the ~40,000-bird East Coast introduction effort of 1908-09; New York State Conservation Department aerial-photograph and ground-census work from 1941 through 1963 documented the species disappearing from its earlier established range as agricultural practices changed, with the last pockets of huntable numbers persisting longest in the St. Lawrence River lowlands (northern New York, near the modern DEC Region 6 area) before disappearing entirely. The introduction is now considered to have failed statewide; the species is classified a Protected Bird under New York law and may not be hunted or taken at any time, and the state's own Natural Heritage Program does not track it for conservation purposes since it is non-native and has no state conservation status.