Historically, Common Pheasant were found in the woods around the lake.

These included common pheasants, Indian peafowls and rock pigeons among others.

Common Pheasants feed solely on the ground but roost in sheltered trees at night.

Tourism today largely revolves around cyclists and Common Pheasant hunters.

However, chukar and common pheasant can adversely impact native bird populations by serving as disease reservoirs.

In its natural habitat the Common Pheasant lives in grassland near water with small copses of trees.

As with Charles Darwin, a youth spent shooting game birds - black or red grouse, common pheasant, partridge - led to a more general interest.

Common pheasant "Fasan"

There are, said Squibb, about 30 subspecies of the common pheasant, a gold-brown bird with a blue-green head and a long barred tail.

Some authorities consider the Green Pheasant a subspecies of the Common Pheasant.

There are many colour forms of the male Common Pheasant, ranging in colour from nearly white to almost black in some melanistic examples.

The forest is an important habitat for robins and many other songbirds, woodpeckers, common pheasants, deer and grey squirrels.

The hen Reeves's Pheasant is the same size as a male Common Pheasant.

As the latter was not known to Linnaeus in 1758, the Common Pheasant is naturally the type species of Phasianus.

The best-known is the Common Pheasant, which is widespread throughout the world in introduced feral populations and in farm operations.

Game birds include Red-legged Partridge, Common Pheasant and Wood Pigeon.

Common Pheasant, (P. colchicus)

The female (hen) is much less showy, with a duller mottled brown plumage similar to that of the female Common Pheasant.

Domestic fowl have been crossed with guineafowl and also with Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus).

The Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae).

The species apparently have somewhat different ecological requirements and at least in its typical habitat, the Green Pheasant outcompetes the Common Pheasant.

A colloquial term for the Common Pheasant in the USA, derived from "Chinese Pheasant".

The Green Pheasant (P. versicolor) of Japan is sometimes placed as subspecies within the Common Pheasant.

This level of protection may also, such in the case of the common pheasant, reduce the energy in female expended on remaining alert to, or fleeing from, invading males.

The species housed here include Indian peafowl, Bengal tiger, common pheasant, emu, lion, mute swan, nilgai, ostrich and silver pheasant among a few others.

A recent and welcomed spreading has the pheasant (Phasianus colchicus).

Phasianus colchicus.

Henderson imported Chinese Pheasants (Phasianus colchicus torquatus) in 1851 and released them on his property.

In 1851, he imported English Pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) and released them near Mongonui.

Eimeria colchici - pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)

Domestic fowl have been crossed with guineafowl and also with Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus).

The Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae).

Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) (Introduced)

Phasianus colchicus is the real Latin name for the bird who mimics the same style of sprinting as the Road Runner when being chased - the pheasant.

Grain-eating game birds [such as bobwhite quail, pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) and rooks (Corvus frugilegus)] were acknowledged to be more vulnerable.

The Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), another species introduced from Europe, never seems to have become really plentiful, though it has been a breeding resident since at least 1901.

Phasianus colchicus chrysomelas/principalis group - White-winged Pheasants including Prince of Wales Pheasant (P. c. principalis)

Phasianus colchicus pallasi - Manchurian Ring-necked Pheasant or North Ring-necked Pheasant(Korean)

Two species at least have been introduced to the shouf area for hunting and expanded their range into the reserve, the two species are: Rock partridge (Alectoris graeca), and Common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus).

At around the same time, Thomas Henderson imported Chinese Pheasants (Phasianus colchicus torquatus) and released them on his property on his property, now known as the Auckland suburb of Henderson.

There are several endemic subspecies of birds, of which the Caspian Titmouse (Poecile hyrcanus) subspecies of the Titmouse; the Caucasus Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus colchicus) subspecies of the Common Pheasant of the Talysh Mountains are common.