George Richard (Dick) Potts (1939–2017)

The Grey Partridge Perdix perdix occupied a special place in Dick Potts’ heart. His intuitive feel for the species was uncanny, and his boundless enthusiasm for it infectious. On the annual ritual of the partridge counts in Sussex, those colleagues lucky enough to have shared a Landrover with him recall the countless times when, within a huge featureless stubble field, he knew exactly where the single partridge covey was hiding and detected it...