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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. Golden pheasant - Wikipedia

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    Golden pheasant. The golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus), also known as the Chinese pheasant, and rainbow pheasant, is a gamebird of the order Galliformes (gallinaceous birds) and the family Phasianidae (pheasants). The genus name is from Ancient Greek khrusolophos, "with golden crest", and pictus is Latin for "painted" from pingere, "to paint".

  4. Chinese pheasant - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Pheasant. 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 ).

  5. 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 ...

  6. Silver pheasant - Wikipedia

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    The silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera) is a species of pheasant found in forests, mainly in mountains, of mainland Southeast Asia and eastern and southern China. It is introduced on Victoria Island in Nahuel Huapi Lake, Neuquén, Argentina and on Vancouver Island, Canada. The male is black and white, while the female is mainly brown.

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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 ]

  9. Phasianus - Wikipedia

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    The genus Phasianus was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. [1] The genus name is Latin for "pheasant". The word is derived from the Ancient Greek φἀσιἀνος, phāsiānos, meaning " (bird) of the Phasis ". The birds were found by the Argonauts on the banks of the River ...