Common Pheasant

The Common Pheasant is a long-tailed gamebird with pronounced differences between the sexes. Males combine an iridescent green head, bare red facial skin and richly patterned copper-brown body; many populations show a white neck ring. Females are smaller and cryptically mottled brown. Both have long, pointed tails, though the male's is longer, and usually run through cover before taking explosive, noisy flight (Cornell Lab of Ornithology).

Common Pheasants occupy farmland, old fields, grassland, brush and woodland edges. They forage mostly on the ground, eating seeds, grain, leaves, roots, fruit and invertebrates, with more animal prey taken in spring and summer. The female places a simple nest in tall ground vegetation and lays seven to fifteen eggs, incubating them for 23–28 days; downy chicks leave soon after hatching (Cornell Lab of Ornithology).