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Common pheasants are traditionally a target of small game poachers in the UK. The Roald Dahl novel Danny the Champion of the World featured a poacher (and his son) who lived in the UK and illegally hunted common pheasants. Pheasant farming is a common practice and is frequently done intensively, with serious adverse impacts on native species. [68]
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.
It is a large pheasant, up to 76 cm long and greyish brown with finely spotted green eyespots, an elongated bushy crest, bare pink or yellow facial skin, white throat, and grey iris, bill and legs.
The List of Wildlife Species at Risk currently has more than 800 entries for Canadian wild life species considered vulnerable; including 363 classified as endangered species, —190 threatened species, —235 special concern, and 22 extirpated (no longer found in the wild). [1] About 65 percent of Canada's resident species are considered ...
The peacock-pheasants are a bird genus, Polyplectron, of the family Phasianidae, consisting of eight species. They are colored inconspicuously, relying on heavily on crypsis to avoid detection. When threatened, peacock-pheasants will alter their shapes using specialised plumage that when expanded reveals numerous iridescent orbs.
Lady Amherst's pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae) is a bird of the order Galliformes and the family Phasianidae.The genus name is from Ancient Greek khrusolophos, "with golden crest".
The UK’s largest zoo is celebrating a ‘baby boom,’ with births of several animals from extinct in the wild and endangered species. Whipsnade Zoo has welcomed 13 extinct in the wild Père ...
Argusianus Rafinesque 1815 (argus pheasants) Afropavo Chapin, 1936 (African peafowl) Pavo Linnaeus, 1758 (Asiatic peafowl) Syrmaticus Wagler, 1832 (long-tailed pheasants) Phasianus Linnaeus, 1758 (true pheasants) Chrysolophus Gray, 1834 (ruffed pheasants) Lophura Fleming, 1822 non Gray, 1827 non Walker, 1856 (gallopheasants) Catreus Cabanis, 1851