Mountain Pheasants

[16and30]

they look like the descandants of the chicken :)

[LINKSMINADAS]

I have 3 common and 2 silver pheasants :P One ringnecked male escaped 1.5 year ago and I saw him near to my house two weeks ago. He's stil alive despite the fact that temperature is sometimes -25 degrees celsius

[greenpalaka]

wow!. then what did you do?.. i hoped ull catch him again

[LINKSMINADAS]

I couldn't catch him. He's very frightful and I saw him flying ~350 meters. He's wild now :D

[greenpalaka]

oh,.... well atlest she/he is free now!... but tough luck!, how much did it cost for one of those birds...

[LINKSMINADAS]

He. I've heared him screaming today. They are not very expensive. In the place where I live, they costs 10- 15 euros.

[greenpalaka]

screaming!??? whoa!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahah

[isofaster]

there are some vids on youtube that detail how to make live traps for birds , you could recapture him...

[LINKSMINADAS]

It is not worth to make traps for 1 bird. I am interested in ornithology so I have some experience of bird catching. Besides it is spring now ant there is a lot of feed for a pheasant and he won't come near to the house.

[VetBoi87]

where exactly do you live for temperatures to reach -25 degrees celsius?

[LINKSMINADAS]

In the center of Lithuania. search in wikipedia if you don't know where it is

[IDameaux9I]

pheasants are so beautiful. The fact some are bred for bloodsports really sickens me, as with any animal. My favorite pheasant is the himalayan monal! I hope to own a large avery one day!! Fab music too, whats the music called?

[SusanSharma]

Thanks. The music is Yanni performing at the Taj Mahal, in India.

[thedangerousgypsie]

Mountain pheasants!

[thedangerousgypsie]

GOOD VIDEO

[SusanSharma]

Thanks. I found your website mountainshepherds very interesting. Look forward to visiting Nanda Devi sometime!

[bhotiya]

Awesome !

We are also trying to develop birding trails around Nanda Devi.

[appy234]

sweet i like the colors where is the ring neck pheasnt? i know it orignated in china and came over 2 america but thats about it

[SusanSharma]

The ring necked pheasant is not seen in India. I beleve that, as an introduced species, it is common in the grainbelt of US.

The pheasants that are in the clip all exist in the wild, though the W.tragopan is extremely rare.

[westphalianprinz]

Ring-necks are a variant of the common pheasant.

Its range originally ran from the Caucuses through to most of China.

It's a grassland species, which is why it has adapted so well to the plains and farmland of the central US.

[nazimneo]

hi any chance you can upload a video of a Kala Teetar

or Black francolin

Thanks

[SusanSharma]

Sorry I do not have any video on Black francolin

[SusanSharma]

Thanks for the comments , Ritika. Do watch trailor of "Sarang The Peacock" too.

[ritikasinha]

I don't know enough about the origination of pheasants, but I was curious about why you believe peacocks couldn't exist in the Himalayas.

Susan, thank you for posting these wonderful videos. I saw the clip on the mountains and caves and they were very inspiring.

[Kwazykat]

The pheasants in the video are in order of appearance (excluding the three small screen crossing insets at the beginning); Western Tragopan (rare/vulnerable), White Crested Kalij (rare/vulnerable), Hemalyan Monal (stable), Hemalyan Monal hen, Joret's Koklass (stable), Either another Joret's or perhaps a common Koklass. Thanks for posting this wonderful video! It would be wonderful to see many more bird videos on the net, especially of birds in their wild habitat!

[Kwazykat]

All this being said, some of the most beautiful of the pheasant species including the types shown in your video are found in the Hemalayas, including a few of the most endangered pheasant species in the world.

[Kwazykat]

(continued from previous) For those who would be interested in learning in depth about phesants I recommend Paul A. Johnsgard's book "Pheasants of the World", which is considered to be the difinitave book on the topic by most ornithologists. Even though it is an academic work it is none-the-less quite accessible to average readers who have never been exposed to ornithology or bird watching. (continued)

[Kwazykat]

This simply isn't true. Though many pheasants are native to the Hemalayas, there are many which have never set foot there. The most common and most widly spread species (p. colchicus, aka ringnecked pheasant) isn't represented by a single subspecies in the Hemalayas. Further, no members of the genus polyplectron (peacock pheasants) have ever (or could ever) exist in the wild in the Hemalayas. Nice clips though.

[SusanSharma]

Thank you Kathy for the comments. Your comments made me think and search for more info and this is what I found about ring necked on the internet

"The ring-necked pheasant was native to Asia. It ranged from between the Black and Caspian seas east to Manchuria southeast to Siberia and Korea and south to China, Japan and Formosa. Pheasants were introduced in 1857 to California and to other western states in the 1880's."