By Mark Avery
Abstract The Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus occurs throughout temperate Asia but in the Western Palearctic it is a native bird only in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Elsewhere, it is widely introduced and about half of the European Pheasant population is found in the UK, where breeding numbers have doubled in the past 40 years. Some 43 million young Pheasants are releas
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