On The Highland Road - II
The common
pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae). It is native
to Asia and has been
widely introduced elsewhere as a game bird. In parts of its range, namely in
places where none of its relatives occur such as in Europe (where it is
naturalized), it is simply known as the "pheasant". Ring-necked
pheasant is both the name used for the species as a whole in North America
and also the collective name for a number of subspecies and their
intergrades which have white neck rings. The word pheasant
is derived from the ancient town of Phasis,
the predecessor of the modern port city of Poti in Western Georgia.
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