My Best View Ever of a Ring-necked Pheasant!

The Ring-necked Pheasant is native to Southeast Asia and in fragmented areas west into Europe.
Humans introduced them to the USA and elsewhere as an upland game bird.
California and other states have a season to hunt pheasants with shotguns, archery, or falcons.
I prefer to simply watch them.
We were lucky enough to find his gorgeous male pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) in West Sacramento, CA, USA on 9 February 2024.
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[@shooting-star77]

よく撮れましたね！家にもキジが住み着いているのですが、逃げてしまうので、こんなによく撮れません。

[@michelemccormick5688]

Terrific!

[@frankseverson]

Thanks, Michele.

[@Fortheloveofbirds2020]

Fabulous ❤❤

[@frankseverson]

I was lucky to see this. Thanks for your comment.

[@skroneybhaiskroneybhai5449]

I look forward to your next video

[@frankseverson]

Thank you. I have a couple of really special videos to post soon.

[@MyaYard]

Great shot, such a beautiful bird!

[@frankseverson]

Thank you.

[@skroneybhaiskroneybhai5449]

It was very good

[@frankseverson]

Thank you.

[@PeaceOfGrace]

Was that your turn signal I heard or the pheasant?

[@user-vv9ki8hy6g]

これは？！普通のキジとは違いますね！？

[@indyreno2933]

You should know that Phasianus colchicus is the scientific name of the black-necked pheasant, the ring-necked pheasant is a separate species with a different binomial scientific name being Phasianus torquatus.

[@frankseverson]

Thanks so much for finding that error. The proper scientific name for the Ring-necked Pheasant is Meleagris gallopavo.

[@indyreno2933]

The proper scientific name of the ring-necked pheasant is actually Phasianus torquatus, Meleagris gallopavo is actually the scientific name of the mexican turkey.

[@frankseverson]

@@indyreno2933 I got thoroughly confused about which video I was responding to. I recently posted a video of Wild Turkeys mating. According to iNaturalist, Wikipedia, and several Cornell websites, the scientific name for them is Meleagris gallopavo. According to those same sources, the Ring-necked Pheasant is Phasianus colchicus. Here's a link to the iNat reference for the pheasant: www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=981. iNat says Phasianus colchicus ssp. torquatus is the Chinese Ring-necked Pheasant. www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&taxon_id=603700

[@indyreno2933]

@frankseverson, recent studies now show that black-breasted, black-necked, and ring-necked pheasants are now three separate polytypic species that are now believed to be only distantly related to each other and one of them being more closely related to the green pheasant (Phasianus versicolor), which would therefore make Phasianus colchicus paraphyletic, it is known that the ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus torquatus), which also has presences in both Hainan and Taiwan is the closest living relative of the green pheasant, with the black-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) being the sister species to the clade that contains the ring-necked pheasant and green pheasant and the black-breasted pheasant (Phasianus elegans) as the most basal and distantly related from all the other species, unlike the green pheasant that has only three extant subspecies, the other three species of the genus Phasianus, where its members are called "common pheasants" have large numbers of extant subspecies, the black-breasted pheasant (Phasianus elegans) has six subspecies under two subspecies groups: the Phasianus elegans elegans group that contains the Rothschild's Black-Breasted Pheasant (Phasianus elegans rothschildi), the Stone's Black-Breasted Pheasant (Phasianus elegans elegans), and the Qinghai Black-Breasted Pheasant (Phasianus elegans vlangallii) and the Phasianus elegans principalis group that contains the White-Winged Black-Breasted Pheasant (Phasianus elegans chrysomelas), the Bianchi's Black-Breasted Pheasant (Phasianus elegans bianchii), and the Prince of Wales's Black-Breasted Pheasant (Phasianus elegans principalis), the black-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) has twelve subspecies under three subspecies groups: the Phasianus colchicus decollatus group that contains the Kweichow Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus decollatus) and the Sungpan Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus suehschanensis), the Phasianus colchicus tarimensis group that contains the Satchu Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus satscheuensis), the Gangdisi Shan Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus gangdisishanensis), the Tarim Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus tarimensis), and the Yarkand Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus shawii), and the Phasianus colchicus colchicus group that contains the Amu-Darya Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus zarudnyi), the Persian Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus persicus), the Talisch Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus talischensis), the Caucasian Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus colchicus), the Turkish Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus turcicus), and the Caspian Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus septentrionalis), and the ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus torquatus) has eighteen subspecies under five subspecies groups: the Phasianus torquatus sohokhotensis group that contains the Strauch's Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus strauchi), the Sohokhoto Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torqautus sohokhotensis), and the Alashan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus alashanicus), the Phasianus torquatus torqautus group that contains the Tonkinese Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus takatsukasae), the Shandong Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus shandongensis), the Sichuan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus torquatus), the Hainan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus hainanus), and the Formosan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus formosanus), the Phasianus torquatus karpowi group that contains the Shansi Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torqautus kiangsuensis), the Mandarin Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus liaoningensis), the Manchurian Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus pallasi), and the Korean Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus karpowi), the Phasianus torqautus hagenbecki group that contains the Kobdo Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torqautus hagenbecki) and the Ruo Shui Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus edzinensis), and the Phasianus torquatus mongolicus group that contains the Mongolian Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus mongolicus), the Zerafshan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torqautus zerafschanicus), the Syr-Darya Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torqautus turcestanicus), and the Aral Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus bergii), also, there is no such thing as a "wild turkey", they're more correctly called "black turkeys" or "common turkeys" and are now thought to be two separate species being the United States Turkey (Meleagris silvestris) and the Mexican Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) with the former containing the Rio Grande Turkey (Meleagris silvestris intermedia), Merriam's Turkey (Meleagris silvestris merriami), Northeastern Turkey (Meleagris silvestris silvestris), and Florida Turkey (Meleagris silvestris osceola) as its subspecies and the latter containing the Tamaulipas Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo tamaulipensis), Gould's Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo mexicana), South Mexico Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo gallopavo), and Domestic Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo domestica) as its subspecies.

[@frankseverson]

@@indyreno2933 You know far more than I about the systematics of these species. It sounds like you're doing the research to make these discoveries. Do you have articles or websites you can point me to so that I can learn more?