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The common pheasant was first introduced to Great Britain many centuries ago, but was rediscovered as a game bird in the 1830s. [citation needed] It is reared extensively in captivity, and around 47 million pheasants are released each year on shooting estates, [1] mainly in England, although most released birds survive less than a year in the wild.
Mount Victoria, 3,464 metres (11,365 ft), is a mountain on the border between British Columbia and Alberta in the Canadian Rockies. It is located just northeast of Lake O'Hara in Yoho National Park [5] and is also part of Banff National Park and is on the Continental Divide (which is the definition of the interprovincial boundary in this region ...
Upland hunters use all types of shotguns from break-action single-shots to semi-automatics, calibered from .410 bore through to 12-gauge.The quintessential shotgun for upland hunting is a double-barrel shotgun in a smaller gauge such as a 16-, 20-or 28-gauge, using small round pellets known as birdshots, which are also commonly used in duck hunting.
The Fairholme Range is a mountain range east of the Bow River valley in the Canadian Rockies.The range is bounded on the west side by the Trans-Canada Highway as it passes through the towns of Exshaw and Canmore, while the northern section of the range extends into Banff National Park to the southern shores of Lake Minnewanka. [4]
Mount Bishop is a mountain named in 1918 after W.A. "Billy" Bishop VC who was a Colonel and a Canadian fighter pilot awarded the Victoria Cross during World War I. [4] It is located in the Elk Range of the Canadian Rockies and sits on the Continental Divide, which forms the British Columbia-Alberta border in this area.
Ring-necked pheasant is both the collective name for a number of subspecies and their intergrades that have white neck rings, and the name used for the species as a whole in North America. It is a well-known gamebird , among those of more than regional importance perhaps the most widespread and ancient one in the whole world.
A Section of a General Map of the Routes in British North America Explored by the Expedition Under Captain Palliser (1865) [1] The Palliser expedition, officially the British North American Exploring Expedition, explored and surveyed the open prairies and rugged wilderness of western Canada from 1857 to 1860.
Kakwa Wildlands Park, Kakwa Provincial Park and Willmore Wilderness Park comprise the first interprovincial park shared between Alberta and British Columbia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Access to the park is via Highway 40 , through the hamlet of Grande Cache , and the four staging areas: Sulphur Gates, Cowlick Creek, Berland River and Rock Lake. [ 3 ]