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A pheasantry is a place or facility used for captive breeding and rearing pheasants, peafowls and other related birds, which may or may not be confined with enclosures such as aviaries. The pheasants may be sold or displayed to public or used as game birds. Pheasantries may also be used for conservation and research purposes. [1]
The idea of starting a farm devoted to raising pheasants arose in 1770. Steps were taken in order to obtain the necessary land. At first some plots of land belonging to peasants were repurchased, and later an extensive birch forest was added (thanks to an exchange of land made by the village leader Greycark). [1]
Pheasants Forever, Inc. (PF), a 501(c)(3) non-profit conservation organization, is dedicated to conserving wildlife habitat suitable for pheasants.Formed in 1982 as a response to the continuing decline of upland wildlife and habitat throughout the United States, Pheasants Forever, and its quail conservation division, Quail Forever, have a combined membership of approximately 150,000 throughout ...
The watershed now includes parts of the Loyalsock State Forest, Pennsylvania State Game Lands, and a State Game Farm for raising pheasant. Tourism, hunting, and fishing have long been important in the region, and the year-round population of Plunketts Creek Township is increasing much faster than that of either Lycoming or Sullivan County.
Poultry farming is the form of animal husbandry which raises domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese to produce meat or eggs for food.Poultry – mostly chickens – are farmed in great numbers.
The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), ring-necked pheasant, or blue-headed pheasant, a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae). The genus name comes from Latin phasianus 'pheasant'. The species name colchicus is Latin for 'of Colchis ' (modern day Georgia ), a country on the Black Sea where pheasants became known to Europeans. [ 2 ]
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Pheasant fowling, "Showing how to catch pheasants", facsimile of a miniature in the manuscript of the "Livre du Roy Modus" (fourteenth century). Cheer pheasant pair in Himalaya, India. Pheasants (/ ˈ f ɛ z ə n t s / FEH-zənts) are birds of several genera within the family Phasianidae in the order Galliformes. Although they can be found all ...