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Common Pheasant
Phasianus colchicus Linnaeus, 1758
Phasianidae — Pheasants & Allies
Common Pheasant, Phasianus colchicus, is a bird of the pheasant family that breeds across central and eastern Eurasia, southern China, Taiwan and northern Vietnam. It is also native to the far south-east of Europe in the northern Caucasus foothills. A familiar gamebird, it has been taken to many other places and is naturalised in parts of Europe. In North America, the name ring-necked pheasant is used for the species and for a group of forms with white neck rings. Linnaeus described it in 1758.
- Order
- Galliformes
- Family
- Phasianidae — Pheasants & Allies
- Breeding range
- Palearctic, Oriental Region: c, e Eurasia, s China, Taiwan and n Vietnam
