Many people consider “The Twelve Days of Christmas" to be a fun, non-religious song celebrating the Christmas season. The song tells of 12 gifts -- one given each day to someone’s true love ...

Michael Sheen will appear with Desperate Housewives star ... and his two bickering children, Will and Ella. First, a partridge in a pear tree, the next day two turtle doves are sent, followed by three ...

Even so, you will probably never see a partridge in a pear tree. How could that be? After all, the repetitive first line of the “The 12 Days of Christmas” carol references a beloved receiving ...

Possibly the most famous avian in the Christmas diddy is the partridge ... and not "likely to roost in pear trees," says Michael Ward, avian ecologist at the University of Illinois.