Hello, we've got a pheasant visiting our garden but it's really dark brown all over and not the typical pheasants seen locally - can anyone let me know what type it might be?
Thanks
Hi-
our normal Ring necked pheasant comes in many different colour phases. It could be one of those.
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S
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As above, very likely going to be a dark phase, my family have an all black Pheasant that visits their garden occasionally, they tried to photograph it many times for me but it always comes out blurry as the darn thing runs away anytime a camera is pulled!
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Hedgebaby said: Hello, we've got a pheasant visiting our garden but it's really dark brown all over and not the typical pheasants seen locally - can anyone let me know what type it might be? Thanks
hi the plain colour phesants namely blue, or black are melenistic, and are used as
marker birds, for the shoot, these birds are not shot. best regards mac
Thanks Mac - can you explain how they are used then? I have no experience of a shoot.
Hedgebaby said: Thanks Mac - can you explain how they are used then? I have no experience of a shoot.
cannot say more, but what they do they have some very distinctive coloured birds like melanistic
placed in with normal birds, on shoot days no one is alowed to shoot this bird, but the keepers can tell how
the birds are moving about on the estate by these birds, so they know which drives to do on any given days. hope tghis explains. best regards mac
Thank you. Its all very interesting.
I've just looked up the melanistic pheasant and this one doesn't have a red face - it's face its dark brown and the body feathers are also dark brown with lighter edges - I've tried to take a photo but not had much success yet.
Hedgebaby said: Thank you. Its all very interesting. I've just looked up the melanistic pheasant and this one doesn't have a red face - it's face its dark brown and the body feathers are also dark brown with lighter edges - I've tried to take a photo but not had much success yet.
It's a melanistic pheasant. And indeed hard to.photograph. they are more cautious but are more hardy and have great survivers They rarely go broody but do have excellent reproduction capabilities.
I've spotted a black one(s) along a country road not far from here, never when I have a camera and always wondered if it was something special or just black