ring-necked pheasant
Phasianus colchicus
Description 2
Adult males are attractive and unmistakable, with a long tail, bright red wattles around the eyes, a chestnut colored body, and an iridescent green or bluish head, which is often separated from the body by a white collar. Females are paler in color, with spots and streaks, which provide good camouflage.
Habitat 3
Open country (especially cultivated areas, scrubby wastes, open woodland and edges of woods), grassy steppe, desert oases, riverside thickets, swamps and open mountain forest. Winter shelter includes bushes and trees along streams. Usually nests in fields, brushy edges, or pastures, also along road rights-of-way. Nest is shallow depression scratched out by female.
Conservation 4
Not currently threatened.
Sources and Credits
- (c) Allan Hack, some rights reserved (CC BY-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/10498052@N02/1801845517
- (c) Wildscreen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/6683524
- (c) NatureServe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/28816068
- Adapted by okaloosascience from a work by (c) Wildscreen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/6683528
