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  • The pheasant's ubiquity is largely due to its popularity as a gamebird: millions of birds are reared in captivity each year, to be released in time for the start of the shooting season on 1 October.

    Birdwatch: Pheasant 2011

  • Brought here by the Romans as a handy source of food, the pheasant's origins are in the forests of south-west Asia.

    Birdwatch: Pheasant 2011

  • On his enormous head is perched a tiny felt hat decorated with a pheasant's red tail feather.

    Family ski: never say never in South Tyrol Martin Love 2010

  • Both sides talk of pheasant's tendency to dryness, and the fact that one bird will feed only two people.

    Why pheasant is the only game in town 2011

  • The pheasant's ubiquity is largely due to its popularity as a gamebird: millions of birds are reared in captivity each year, to be released in time for the start of the shooting season on 1 October.

    Birdwatch: Pheasant 2011

  • Brought here by the Romans as a handy source of food, the pheasant's origins are in the forests of south-west Asia.

    Birdwatch: Pheasant 2011

  • To notice that this is the color green on a pheasant's head; or, this is what a viperfish a viperfish! looks like when my nose is an inch away from its teeth.

    natural history Megan Kurashige 2010

  • To notice that this is the color green on a pheasant's head; or, this is what a viperfish a viperfish! looks like when my nose is an inch away from its teeth.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Megan Kurashige 2010

  • This plastic contraption has been purposely affixed to this pheasant's beak to stop him from looking straight ahead.

    Albloggerque johnny_mango 2005

  • There was natural grace in her attitude, and there was artistic effect in the ample and shining folds of her silk dress - an attire simply fashioned, but almost splendid from the shifting brightness of its dye, warp and woof being of tints deep and changing as the hue on a pheasant's neck.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

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