What is in this crop?

[Bob Peters]

Mn pheasant.

 

[Notwrking]

Do pheasants eat buckthorn berries? That's what it looks like to me.

 

[BrownDogsCan2]

They look kind of like dried pokeberries. I’ve seen them eat them after the first frost. It stains their crops.

 

[remy3424]

Wild grapes or maybe more likely, high bush cranberries. Where were you?

 

[BrownDogsCan2]

Or maybe elderberry

 

[spoonbill82]

Or maybe black night shade.

 

[McFarmer]

Or maybe elderberry

This is my guess, along with the stems.

 

[GladHunter]

With those stems it look to me like Pokeberries

 

[matto]

+1 for pokeberries.

 

[remy3424]

Where are '"Pokeberries"? I need to goggle them. Not a term I have heard here. The color looks right for elderberry....are those similar size to sorghum?

 

[matto]

Link:

Kansas Wildflowers and Grasses - Pokeweed

Also called Poke weed.

 

[Tomahawker]

Dingleberries? Never seen them before but heard about them.

 

[GladHunter]

I thought I had inserted a link in my previous post, but I didn't get it right(fixed now).
They look very similar to elderberries. Elderberries are a little smaller and fruit in a crown or floret, Pokeberries fruit off of a central stem. I believe Elderberry are a perennial shrub, pokeberries are an annual weed.
Pokeberries are also called inkberry for the strong pigment in the berries that was used as...ink.

 

[BrownDogsCan2]

Small pea closer to the size of caper. But dingleberries come in all sizes.

 

[remy3424]

Aronia berries possibly. Elders start so small, I can't imagine there would be much left to them now, but it appears they were still hanging on to the stems they grew on. That seems odd to find those in a crop at this time of the year....July or August seems more likely for berries to be eaten. I am 75 miles from MN, so elder or aronia are possible. Aronia would most likely be cultivated, can be in wildlife plantings, a denser, shorter bush. The elder berry is a usually growing wild the bush is more "loose" with a thicker, almost brittle stock. Thus ends my knowledge of purple colored berries. Whatever they are, that rooster was getting after them!