Animals / Bird

Common pheasant

Phasianus colchicus · Phasianidae

The common pheasant, ring-necked pheasant, or blue-headed pheasant, is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae). The genus name comes from Latin phasianus 'pheasant'. The species name colchicus is Latin for 'of Colchis', a country on the Black Sea where pheasants became known to Europeans.

Where the Common pheasant lives

Introduced, not native, in United States of America, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, France, Denmark, Canada, Germany and Finland.

Most records fall in Zuid-Holland, East Flanders, West Flanders, Flemish Brabant, Noord-Holland and Gelderland.

See the Common pheasant’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 3,451,032 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.