Anyone Know What Kind of Bird This Is (look, Michigan)
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It's a Golden Pheasant--also sometimes called a "Chinese Pheasant" as it's native to western China. (Other pheasant species are native to China, too, but this is the most colorful one!)
It's a Golden Pheasant--also sometimes called a "Chinese Pheasant" as it's native to western China. (Other pheasant species are native to China, too, but this is the most colorful one!)
Beautiful! I was guessing some sort of pheasant and was pretty sure it's not indigenous to SC.
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When our English Pheasants started dying out in PA; there was talk about introducing this Chinese Pheasant to repopulate our state. But it never caught on or they also had problems? I don't know if anybody ever figured out why the English Pheasants where no longer self propagating? There was a lot of speculation about the no-till farming, predators, acid rain – but I don't recall everybody pinpointing the exact cause?
There really aren't any "English" Pheasants. The primary pheasant in the U.S.--as in PA & Michigan--is the Ring-necked Pheasant, which is also native to Asia. The species of pheasant which Michigan, PA and other states tried to introduce many years ago was the Sichuan Pheasant, since they thought it would do better in shrubby habitats. It did not succeed and quickly died out in Michigan and elsewhere. We still have Ring-necked Pheasants in Michigan, but they are struggling here as elsewhere. No one is certain of the cause of decline, but more industrialized farming practices is viewed as the key suspect.
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