Some of the most boring photos you'll ever see
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1pheas4
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I'm not sure I understand exactly what your asking Tori. Sorry
Yes, it's disheartening, sad, worrisome, and disappointing
1pheas4
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Preston; Tell me what you think my friend. (Hope you don't mind me taking our email conversations to the public)
Check these wild birds out in the flickr link below (multiple pages of predators and pheasants). They obviously have a different genetic line from the birds in my photos. Notice how "bold" they are despite the number of predators in their area. We used to see our birds (here in Illinois/Wisconsin) doing the same pre-1995.
As I mentioned before, even in areas with great habitat and good numbers of birds, they are never or seldom seen crossing roads. When they do, it's a very fast "get the heck out of here" run/flush and often in very little light. Never do we see these birds in a field feeding.
It's photos like this that make me think there may be something behind my theory as to why our birds are not venturing out and cross breeding with other wild birds. Maybe
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcstep/with/6859892363/#photo_6859892363
)Check these wild birds out in the flickr link below (multiple pages of predators and pheasants). They obviously have a different genetic line from the birds in my photos. Notice how "bold" they are despite the number of predators in their area. We used to see our birds (here in Illinois/Wisconsin) doing the same pre-1995.
As I mentioned before, even in areas with great habitat and good numbers of birds, they are never or seldom seen crossing roads. When they do, it's a very fast "get the heck out of here" run/flush and often in very little light. Never do we see these birds in a field feeding.
It's photos like this that make me think there may be something behind my theory as to why our birds are not venturing out and cross breeding with other wild birds. Maybe
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcstep/with/6859892363/#photo_6859892363
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mnmthunting
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She is not my dog, unfortunately, but I have her lovely litter sister...
1pheas4 is the lift of the soil due to the permafrost underneath?
Oh seeing those birds...we still have 95 days to our Opening Day
Tori, The land in the pic is grassland tilled and going into crops this Spring.
The uneven ground is from rough tilling and erosion both wind and water.
No permafrost in Illinois.
People from all over the country, well outside of the traditional pheasant range, admire wild pheasants.
I just wanted to tell the Florida Man that he may not have to travel for hundreds of miles to the midwest pheasant country to watch wild pheasants off season. There is a strong possibility that you may have scattered wild colonies of pheasants already in Florida, you just have to know where to look.
My brother-in-law worked for the railroad in Florida for years. A freight train traveling through the back country is really a good spot to see wildlife. He told me that he saw all kind of wildlife, turkeys, quail, deer, wild hogs, bears and yes he also said that he would see pheasants. Well maybe a few escape a shooting preserve.
Look at the link below: http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/birds/ring-necked-pheasant/
But since that time I have spoke to numerous individuals that reported seeing wild acting ringneck pheasants in Florida.
The Formosa Ringneck pheasant is almost identical to any Kansas ringneck. Main point, Taiwan (formally Formosa) is on the same parallel as Miami, warm and humid, so wild ringneck pheasants came survive in warm humid climates. Pheasants in warm climate need nesting cover, moisture in summer and protection from predators more than grain.
Pheasants will eventually adapt to an area. They adapted to Mexicali Mexico and to parts of Texas after almost 50 years and wild and predator wary strains of pheasants.
Look at article below:
http://amarillo.com/stories/120201/whe_legionsofspo.shtml
1pheas4, I don't mind at all, the more the public knows about wild pheasant survival the better in the long run for wild pheasants.
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1pheas4
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I hope that's the case Pres! It's good to know (despite declining pheasant numbers in all too many states) they are indeed expanding their range.
I've posted this video some time ago. It's a 3 part video about the Formosa pheasants in Taiwan. For anyone interested in watching, notice how Prestons point regarding Florida's habitat closely relates to the Formosa ring neck pheasant's native habitat in Taiwan.
This is part 1 of 3 if anyone is interested http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCWJkKjjra8 .
Compare the difference in native habitat with the hagenbecki or Pallasi's habitat; http://blog1.poco.cn/myBlogDetail.php?&id=5459925&user_id=6419191&pri=&n=0&stat_request_channel=
Florida Man
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I have been going to North Central Kansas, Town of Downs, for the past thirteen years for the opening weekend of the season. I have been a few times for late season too. I love it. I wish we would get a few flocks of pheasants down here. I have seen plenty of turkeys, deer, bears and a panther out in the glades as well as tons of hogs. Florida has a good population of wildlife that is unfortunately getting a good mix of released/escaped "pets" such as the Burmese Pythons and the African rock pythons. Fortunately you don't see those in Kansas.