Golden and Lady Amherst pics

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I recently had a client come in and tell me a story. Back in the 1980's he shot a golden pheasant here in Northern Illinois.

The problem is, we don't have wild Golden pheasants here. I believe he shot an off colored ring neck rooster though he insists otherwise.

So, for the fun of it I thought I'd post a few pictures of a golden pheasant and a Lady Amherst pheasant in case someone has never seen or heard of them before.

Many say theirs nothing as pretty as a mature Wood duck. True, they are something to marvel at(!), but the birds below are really something to see too.:thumbsup:

Golden Pheasant
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Lady Amherst
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A lot of states experimented with releasing gold pheadants but I doubt stocking efforts lasted into the 80s. Some preserves have been known to release exotics also so maybe he did shoot one but it was almost positively a released bird. Very beautiful birds.
 
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Ringnecks will kill them during breeding season! Found that out the hard way!!
 
Kansas stocked Golden Pheasants in SE Kansas when I was a Kid in the 60's. I saw them and chased them around on country roads! They survived for a while, but I never saw them quail hunting. But there were roads I could direct you, to go down and see them, every afternoon. I like the old days, when we believed that the only reason we didn't have pheasants there, is because we didn't stock any. Has something to do with being nieve, when we could do anything. I liked us like that.
 
It always makes me scratch my head when I read of attempted introductions of game birds in places that don't resemble their native range. The only place that gold pheasants may have had a chance of taking hold imo is the almost rain forrest like areas of NW Ca and W Oregon's coastal range but they were tried all over the country.:confused:

They make for a less than sporting game bird from what I understand.
 
Believe or not they have pheasants and even a season in Southeast Mo. down where thery grow rice and the field are billiard table clean! Some kind of Korean pheasants that took hold there back in the 60's and persist today. I think the bag limit is 1 per day with 2 in posession, with 15-16 day season. In Kansas City, we are about 2 counties south of pheasant range, we used to see them and had a hunting season in the north part of the metro area, but I have not seen them lately. So cheers to the Korean birds, their more than I have here!
 
I'll have to look into that. It sounds to me like a success story of choosing the right bird for the right application. A lot of pheasant sub species love woods with rice patties carved out of them not the flowing grasslands and corn fields we invision in our heads.
 
do those actually fly??
Many years back I had a white pheasant released at a game farm as a joke for a friend. The ground was snow covered. The bird went up and he froze not sure what the H he was seeing. He thought it was a small domestic turkey. He did a double or triple take and we eventually had to track it down a second time before getting it.
Good times..
 
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It is true, that if you can buy or get a hold of exotic pheasants, you can raise them or release them. chances of reproduction for most exotics is not likely.
 
quail hound said:
A lot of states experimented with releasing gold pheadants but I doubt stocking efforts lasted into the 80s. Some preserves have been known to release exotics also so maybe he did shoot one but it was almost positively a released bird. Very beautiful birds.
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I doubt it too QH:). I believe he shot a rooster with odd color variations similar to the pelt 2nd in from the left. Knowing this gentlemen as well as I do, he wouldn't shoot a golden pheasant if it flushed anyway. He'd mistake it for some sort of parrot or odd, exotic, very large song bird:rolleyes:

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