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  2. Common pheasant - Wikipedia

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    Male of hybrid stock in Poland. Note thin white neck-band due to a ring-necked subspecies' contribution to hybrid gene pool. The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) is 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 ...

  3. Lady Amherst's pheasant - Wikipedia

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    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 English name and amherstiae commemorates Sarah Amherst , who was responsible for sending the first specimen of the bird to London in 1828. [ 2 ]

  4. Reeves's pheasant - Wikipedia

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    The Reeves's pheasant is a hardy bird and is able to tolerate both hot and cold weather. They prefer higher ground for nesting. The female lays a clutch of 7–14 eggs in April or May; the incubation period is 24–25 days. Reeves's pheasants are often aggressive towards humans, animals, and other pheasants, particularly during the breeding ...

  5. Green pheasant - Wikipedia

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    The green pheasant (Phasianus versicolor), also known as the Japanese green pheasant, is an omnivorous bird native to the Japanese archipelago, to which it is endemic. [1][3] Some taxonomic authorities consider it a subspecies of the common pheasant, Phasianus colchicus. [4] It is the national bird of Japan.

  6. Pheasant - Wikipedia

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    Pheasant. Pheasant fowling, "Showing how to catch pheasants", facsimile of a miniature in the manuscript of the "Livre du Roy Modus" (fourteenth century). Pheasants (/ ˈfɛzənts / 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 ...

  7. Greater prairie-chicken - Wikipedia

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    One problem facing prairie-chickens is competition with the ring-necked pheasants. Pheasants lay their eggs in prairie-chicken nests. The pheasant eggs hatch first; this causes the prairie-chickens to leave the nest thinking that the young have hatched. In reality, prairie-chicken eggs do not hatch and the young usually die due to lack of ...