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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 ]
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 over the world in introduced (and captive) populations, the pheasant genera's native range is restricted to Eurasia.
Chinese pheasant can refer to any pheasant species originally native to China. Usually it means either: Common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) which including the ring-necked pheasants. This usage is most common in the United States where the bird is widely naturalized. Golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus).
To create a better habitat for the shooting preserve, they also raise sorghum, which serves as both food and cover for pheasants. The family has also raised Timothy hay for local farms as well as ...
Syrmaticus Wagler, 1832 (long-tailed pheasants) Chrysolophus Gray, 1834 (ruffed pheasants) Phasianus Linnaeus, 1758 (true pheasants) Catreus Cabanis, 1851 (cheer pheasant) Crossoptilon Hodgson, 1838 (eared pheasants) Lophura Fleming, 1822 non Gray, 1827 non Walker, 1856 (gallopheasants) Phasianinae "Nonerectile clade" Tribe Pavonini
Phasianus pheasants are a harem polygynous species that are a highly sexually dimorphic genus, where males are large and elaborately ornamented with brightly coloured plumage, ear tufts, wattles, spurs, and long tails, compared to females that are non-ornamented with a dull cryptic plumage.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission is modifying its winter stocking program because of an outbreak of avian flu in a county where it buys hatchlings.
The subfamily includes true pheasants, tragopans, grouse, turkey and similar birds. [1] Although this subfamily was considered monophyletic and separated from the partridges , francolins , and Old World quails ( Perdicinae ) till the early 1990s, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] molecular phylogenies have shown that this placement is paraphyletic.