Male pheasant on the ground with clean grass surrounds.
Introduced from native Asia but now well established and numbers continually boosted by release of captive bred birds for shooting Adult male familiar and unmistakable with red wattle blue green sheen on head orange brown body plumage and long orange tail some birds show white collar Female is mottled buffish brown with shorter tail than male Feeds on shoots seeds and invertebrates and no doubt has impact on native plants and ground dwelling insects where numerous Widespread and common in mainland Britain and Ireland
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Photo credit: © Peter Chadwick / Alamy / Afripics
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