How To Use Pheasant In A Sentence

This chore goes fast and is followed by light pruning for the pheasantwood and rosewood plantings.
Instead of the turkey, a boiled or roasted chicken (with the brown meat a little underdone) or a brace of stewed or roasted pheasants can be used.
Move on to complex appetizers like pheasant ballottine, a cylinder of braised meat surrounded by a savoury sauce and tiny little apples.
In the fields towards Heswall several pairs of brown hares lolloped and played in the long grass while pheasants strutted their stuff looking stunning in the sunlight.
The clatter of a pheasant call from the field beyond sends the stoat into hiding. Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland

The cull of a flock of 9,000 pheasants was under way yesterday after confirmation of a highly infectious bird disease.
The eggs of the leipoa, or native pheasant, are found in singular – looking mounds of sand, thrown up by the bird in the midst of the scrubs, and often measuring several yards in circumference. An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
Pheasant has virtually no fat so you will need to put fat bacon over its breast.
Though the argus pheasant is not as colorful as its relatives the peacock and the palawock pheasant, it is still an interesting looking bird.
Season with salt and pepper. Remove legs from the pheasant and remove thigh bone out to create a pocket.
Everything is beautifully shot, with rolling fields and pheasants wandering around. Times, Sunday Times
The mail-order range has now been extended to include beef, duck, lamb, chicken, pheasant and goose.
Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity.
The main courses are dominated by marine and freshwater fish, including the ubiquitous pike; or else game - rabbit, pheasant and duck.
Game birds, such as grouse or pheasants, are better suited to rough moorland. Learn to Draw Countryside
He would go to work the next day with a cricket bag full of all the rabbits and pheasants that he'd poached. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
Pheasants are handsome birds, especially the cocks, which are larger than the hens.
Along with the common ringneck pheasant and chukar partridge, the rare ‘blue’ pheasant (listed as ‘green’ by the State Department of Fish and Game), black francolin, gray francolin, and both lace-necked and barred doves can be pursued.
A deer was said to be broken, a cony unlaced, a pheasant, partridge, or quail winged, a pigeon or a woodcock thighed, a plover minced, a mallard unbraced. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
Designed to bring women of varying skill levels together in the field, the Women on Target program has organized a variety of women-only hunts for 2002, including pursuing turkey, antelope, ducks, pheasants, chukars and whitetail deer.
Her flowers are exactingly painted, petal, leaf, and stalk; her plates and pheasants waiting to be plucked are textbook - perfect.
Male argus pheasants impress with an involved dance, spreading their wings to form a saucer for a finale.
Each dog was asked to retrieve a pheasant from the river and all of the 16 completed this task without difficulty.
At its most recent meeting, the City Council approved $30,000 for a system to "impound" groundwater in a 524-acre parcel near Pheasant Ridge. StarTribune.com rss feed
For many years this bird was persecuted by game preservers who believed that it was detrimental to both pheasants and partridges.
The sportsmen cried out, "A hen pheasant!" but a gentleman present, who had often seen grouse in the north of England, assured me that it was a greyhen. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
In other cases, they will eat an egg or pheasant which has been poisoned and put out as bait.
I watched lapwings competing for nest sites on the damp fields where I also saw pheasants, grey partridges, teal and mallards.
The pheasant is a beautiful bird and though not native still has adapted very well to living in the Irish countryside.
For close-flushing game like pheasants or quail, you simply took your time when the bird got up.
In the case of gapeworms (often caught from pheasants) the birds will be seen gaping after exertion and attempting to cough up the worms which are anchored in the windpipe.
She leads the way into a little conservatory, and a little pinery, and a little grapery, and a little aviary, and a little pheasantry, and a little dairy for show, and The Absentee
Alternating them, arrange pheasant and apple slices on top of salad in spoke design.
At this time of year, we are often the recipients of a freshly shot brace of pheasant or a wild haunch of venison.
Areas within the pheasant management counties that contain adequate winter cover such as cattail and shrub-carr marshes, well established native prairie fields, and areas with 15 percent or more of the landscape in idle grassland will have the highest pheasant densities. Undefined
The green hills are a-quiver with babblers, bushchats, bulbuls, barbets, crow pheasants, and the laughing thrush of the Palni hills.
Crystal Mountain's Thistle Pub & Grille, located in Kinlochen, a Scottish-inspired lodge near the Clipper quad lift, might sound rather bar-like and it does have a wide selection of Scottish ales, Michigan wines, designer martinis and single malt whiskeys, but it's helmed by CIA-trained executive chef Darren Hawley who regularly whips up such exquisitely delicious delights as smoked pheasant and morel galantine with pickled beet and goat cheese gateau. Pam Grout: Crystal Mountain Resort: Skiing for Grownups
We are heading to a hunting club, which stocks its extensive fields with captive-bred pheasants and quail. Birdology
Imperial and Spotted Eagles hunt over jheels inhabited by Purple Gallinules, Pheasant-tailed Jacanas and improbably tall Sarus Cranes.
Out back were the Vietnamese pheasants and bantams that Kilroy-Silk breeds.
Besides, the collected foliage of the trees, when gazed at from beneath, presents a species of ocellation, to which that of the argus-pheasant is in some way assimilated. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
The 23-year-old has 2,000 animals - ranging from Rhode Island reds and leghorns to pheasants, guinea pigs and budgies - at the family farm at Oxspring near Penistone, South Yorkshire.
The white wolf say:" Too good, yesterday, a pheasant flies into my caponizing to give up, we see.
Two species of jacana occur in India: the bronze-winged (_Motopus indicus_) and the pheasant-tailed jacana or the water-pheasant A Bird Calendar for Northern India
Herds of deer roam in the open glades; droves of pigs are found in the forest somewhat similar to those of England; and a bird, the ynambu guazu, as large as a pheasant; while quails are seen in flocks in the esteros, -- with snipe, wild pigeons, and other birds. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
I had a 26-inch IC barrel for pheasant, and I provided entertainment for zig-zagging doves by wasting a few boxes in "antiaircraft fire", but the best I ever shot at the skeet range was 19 out of 25 with a borrowed Franchi O/U 20 gauge! Feathers vs Clay
Millions of pheasants are bred each year specifically for killing, and thousands of them are wounded rather than killed outright.
The first thing I see in Cramond on the wooded green outside the flats is a pheasant, but it never reappears. Auld Reekie « Squares of Wheat
He casts the royal coachman - white wings and russet hackle, pheasant tippits and peacock herl - to feign the nymph and summon rainbows from a shadow world.
Li Shan supports warm temperate forest that is reported to provide habitat for several rare vertebrates including Chinese populations of rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), musk deer (Moschus berezovskii), giant salamander (Megalobatrachus davidiana), and Koklass pheasant (Pucrasia macrolopha). Central China loess plateau mixed forests
Most males now have a white neck ring, which shows that they come from introduced Chinese pheasant stock. Times, Sunday Times
II animals: monkey, pangolin, giant squirrel, otters, large Viverra, sambar, birds of prey, silver pheasant, peacock pythonsteindachneri, python s, etc. 12.
'As for amusement, I could kill rats as I used to do; or slaughter a hecatomb of pheasants at Babington,' -- here the old man winced, though the word hecatomb reconciled him a little to the disagreeable allusion. John Caldigate
bag a few pheasants
It had the sort of sweetness and paste-like mouth-feel of processed pate, and totally lacked the gamey depth of flavour that one expects from pheasant.
In the never-ending debate over the impact of non-native species, there are invaders many of us have come to accept and even revere (the ringneck pheasant, Huns, chukars) and there are invaders that are almost universally reviled (the snakehead, kudzu, zebra mussels, Texas Longhorn fans). Uncategorized Blog Posts
Unlike grouse, pheasants are easy to breed and have much more meat, feeding three comfortably. Times, Sunday Times
What an admirable _salmi_ this is; undoubtedly the final end of the pheasant. The House of Souls
There is one fowl here called the mallee bird, about the size of the pheasant, and resembling him in many ways. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
Phasianid galliforms are commonly known as grouse, turkeys, pheasants, partridges, francolins, and Old World quail.
Remove cabbage from pan, place alongside pheasant, and top with goat cheese and bacon.
Pheasant, Skeet, Hawgs (Donate the meat don; t carre for it myself). With the big game season winding down in most areas. What is everyone doing to keep sharp and break the monotony of winter?
The farmer informed us that the game was very plentiful; and when we entered the first stubble field, we saw a nide of fourteen pheasants run into the hedge row. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1
A game shooting organisation has condemned an intensive method of rearing pheasants so that country estates can charge visitors high prices to shoot the birds for sport.
‘We've photographed rhinoceros hornbills and great argus pheasants before but when we found that we'd photographed a Sumatran ground cuckoo, we couldn't believe it,’ said field leader Yoan Dinata of Fauna and Flora International Indonesia.
We'd be out in the fields trying to flush pheasants, and flocks of migrating blackbirds would appear.
`Perhaps the pheasant with a bread sauce and game chips and- ' `Sounds mouthwatering. FINAL RESORT
They plant the kind of crops on which not only the pheasant feed, but also thousands of wagtail, curlew, lark, pipit, finch, plover and other species that have been in decline for years.
At Sandringham, Grandpapa took the boys hunting pheasant and grouse, while Charles took care to teach them the finer points of fly-fishing for salmon and sea trout on the river Dee at Balmoral. William and Kate
Hunted boar, francolin, dove and pheasant on Oahu. Del I noticed your hawaii hunting pictures. Is that pohakalua training area?
During the past seven years, Poppy and husband Pete, who fund the sanctuary themselves, have taken scores of animals and birds under their wing, including geese, dogs, a cow, partridge, pheasant and quail.
Archer looked from his brother to Lianne, wondering why Kyle had come to a point like a bird dog scenting warm pheasant. JADE ISLAND
The couple collected breeds of birds from every continent, including pheasants, herons, ibis, kestrels and buzzards.
Return the pheasant to the casserole and serve with the sauce, plenty of mashed potato and red cabbage.
Raptors are known to prey on game species, such as quails, partridges, pheasants and rabbits.
Pheasants, peafowl, argus pheasants, peacock pheasants, and jungle fowl (ancestor of the domestic chicken) are all related.
Some of these include the western tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus), Satyr tragopan (Tragopan satyra), Koklass pheasant (Pucrasia macrolopha), Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus), and Cheer pheasant (Catreus wallichi). Western Himalayan broadleaf forests
Squirrel can be substituted in recipes for rabbit, pheasant, grouse or partridge. Times, Sunday Times
Its colors and streaming feathers are gorgeous with iridian sheen, combining the splendors of the pheasant and the peacock. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
The shouts of hundreds of pheasants were almost deafening. Times, Sunday Times
Even though I am a culchie, I have never hunted, or gone hare coursing or even shot a pheasant. Politics.ie
'polonaise' of plain cloth, a little toque on her head trimmed with a pheasant's wing, a bunch of violets in her bosom, hastening along the Swann's Way
The couple collected breeds of birds from every continent, including pheasants, herons, ibis, kestrels and buzzards.
This fan is made from the feathers of the Himalayan monal, a pheasant found in India, Pakistan, and Nepal.
The vehicle sped away, going through red traffic lights at 50 mph in a 30 mph area before crossing the Pheasant roundabout on the wrong side.
As a shotgunner, I really like The Shooting Party, a detailed look at a weekend of aristocratic driven-pheasant shooting on the eve of World War I. My Favorite Gun Movie
The forest is also home to tigers, jaguars, leopards, langur, black gibbon, Malaysian bears, pheasants, and crested arguses.
The fetid stink combined with the pain immediately began to make Deuce feel sick to his stomach, and on several counts he almost retched up the good pheasant meal he'd taken earlier.
Everything is beautifully shot, with rolling fields and pheasants wandering around. Times, Sunday Times
It featured a sporting clay shoot, guided hunts for pheasant and quail and a celebrity dinner with live and silent auctions.
So do all slender, strappy-leaved plants, like miscanthus, day lilies, sisyrinchium and pheasant grass. Times, Sunday Times
33 one-year-old birds came from two pheasantries, the remaining 118 birds, aged between one and five years, were wildlife animals.
I read a story on one of my pheasant hunters forums were two guys were just driving from one hunt to another just up the road and his prize lab was tossed from the back of the truck and broke a leg with the bone protruding threw the skin. Does Your Dog Ride in the Front Seat?
The worst disease, however, from which the pheasant suffers is "gapes," caused by an accumulation of small red worms in the windpipe that all but suffocate the victim. Birds in the Calendar
The poultry-yard, stables, and cow-shed, relegated to the buildings near the pheasantry and hidden by clumps of trees, instead of afflicting the eye with their foul details, now blended those soft murmurs and cooings and the sound of flapping wings, which are among the most delightful accompaniments of Nature's eternal harmony, with the peculiar rustling sounds of the forest. Sons of the Soil
A former NWFP governor, Lt-Gen I.H. Shah ordered a thriving pheasantry to be removed from Dhodial in District Manshera.
These include common waterbirds such as bitterns (cinnamon bittern [Ixobrychus cinnamomeus]), herons and egrets (Indian pond-heron [Ardeola grayii], Pacific reef-egret [Egretta sacra]), storks (woolly-necked stork [Ciconia episcopus]), ibis (black-headed ibis [Threskiornis melanocephalus]), ducks (spot-billed duck [Anas poecilorhyncha]), jacanas (pheasant-tailed jacana [Hydrophasianus chirurgus]), pratinoles (oriental pratincole [Glareola maldivarum]), and terns (black-bellied tern [Sterna acuticauda]). Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests
You can also order pheasant, caviar, quail, goose, salmon roes, imported cheese and Scottish smoked salmon.
The Lords and ladies would be put up at the Devonshire Arms Hotel at Bolton Abbey before the pheasant and grouse shoots.
The menu is mouth-watering - pies with chicken, pheasant and apricot; pork and caramelised gooseberry; venison and blackcurrant.
Prepare a fire in a charcoal grill. Remove pheasant from marinade, reserving marinade, and pat dry with paper towels.
There are dozens of young hares running about aimlessly in the fields while young cock pheasants are crowing their heads off in every garden and potato patch.
He can capably hunt bobwhite quail and pheasants in the brushy coverts.
Squirrel can be substituted in recipes for rabbit, pheasant, grouse or partridge. Times, Sunday Times
On one side of the road in what looked like a paddy field after recent heavy rains a pheasant picked its way fussily around as though scared of getting its feet wet.
Black pheasants scampered away into the long grass and a flock of white doves swooped between the trees ahead of us. Times, Sunday Times
He came under fire after pictures appeared of the decor - which included a fancy red carpet and red walls, a chandelier and pheasant feathers. The Sun
Pheasant: readily available and surprisingly cheap, any chicken recipe can be adapted for pheasant.
O, tis a noble sight to whitniss that of an appy pheasantry! Novels by Eminent Hands
Raptors are known to prey on game species, such as quails, partridges, pheasants and rabbits.
A preliminary list of birds is given in MoC which includes Pallas's fish-eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus (VU), five species of pheasant, notably Chinese monal Lophophorus lhuysii (VU), and a number of waterfowl species. Huanglong National Scenic Area, China
Meat should-be tender and juicy. Cover pheasant with aluminum foil and let rest in a warm place.
In Scotland, gamekeepers blame the buzzard, a protected bird, for the deaths of thousands of partridges, pheasants, and waders such as curlews and plovers.
You may often see the Turkeys, Pheasants, Peacocks, and other birds of this Hen-family, scratching up the gravel; and you know, I daresay, that grain-eating birds have a little mill inside them called a gizzard, which grinds their food for them. Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation
The menu features game, namely rabbit, pigeon, venison and pheasant, and from time to time buffalo and wild boar.
Next up for me was a tasty pheasant ballottine, incredibly fresh although it must've taken a lot of preparation.
Alternating them, arrange pheasant and apple slices on top of salad in spoke design.
This course could also be game, such as pheasant, wild goat, duck or partridge.
This treatment was called mortification or faisandage after the pheasant, faisan, and had two purposes: it tenderized the meat, and further heightened its “wild” flavor. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Pheasants are generally thought to be comprised of three subfamilies: Tragopaninae (tragopans), Argusianinae, and Phasianinae.
Imported birds such as exotic pheasants, parrots and peacocks were very popular and were kept in aviaries to be bred or shown to important visitors.
Aberrant in other respects, the swamp pheasant disobeys this law, and justifies its disobedience by inconspicuousness. Last Leaves from Dunk Island
The average daily bag is about 200 pheasants. Times, Sunday Times
Cedar waxwings, crows, finches, flycatchers, grosbeaks, grouse, jays, mockingbirds, pheasants, thrushes, vireos, and woodpeckers feed on their fruits.
So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
Remove legs from the pheasant and remove thigh bone out to create a pocket.
Mains include a choice of sea bass, venison and pheasant. Times, Sunday Times
Two pheasant-tailed jacana chicks and eggs on a lily pad nest.
I also can supply recipes for devilled sardines, eels with tartare sauce, monkey-nut macaroons and what to do with cold pheasant remains.
The extensive white spotting helps to separate female tragopans from those of other pheasants, and the elongated white central spot on each feather is bordered with black.
Of all our feathered friends pheasants offer the most gorgeous sight to behold, particularly the male ones.
The place was a shambles; there had been turkeys in one room, pheasants in another. Times, Sunday Times
If they're in the mood for something different, they also can hunt for geese, quail, ducks, and pheasants.
The same winds dry out the stacked brushwood, which settles imperceptiblyas a pheasant or a leveret, when surprised, settles itself stealthily into the ground. Wildwood
In the spring, the pheasant mamas will bring their chicks to picnic on the chickweed.
This, the squire confessed, with some little hesitation, was a pheasant pie, though a peacock pie was certainly the most authentical; but there had been such a mortality among the peacocks this season, that he could not prevail upon himself to have one killed. 33 33 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
For example, several species of birds such as bowerbirds, widowbirds, cock-of-the-rocks, birds of paradise, peacock-pheasants, and manakins build or clear courts used as arenas during elaborate courtship displays to females.
A group of trees formed a screen, behind which the kennels, an old falconry, a pheasantry, and the quarters of the huntsmen were falling into ruins, after being in their day the wonder and admiration of Burgundy. Sons of the Soil
While foraging, the pigs roust grubs that the pheasants eat.
The pheasant Green Cross Code is still in draft, it would seem. Not just pretty feathers
Up there at the edge of the heathery waste this new family must surely be open to risks less common in territory usually occupied by pheasants. Country diary: North Derbyshire
The training began that day, potty training, basic commands-sit, come, stay, her name of course, kennel, laydown, fetch, bring me the bird (a stuffed pheasant) we play with. How many months do you train your puppy to become a gun dog? Also, what month do you buy your dog?
He claims that pheasant and partridge are neither wild nor natural and are not an alternative to factory farmed meat.
I dont understand putting fines on poachers who poach deer or turkey or pheasant, but not on someone who poaches squirrel, rabbit, or other game. Fining Poachers Based On Boone and Crockett Scores
We have a few pairs of Siamese Fireback Pheasants for sale.
This will pair perfectly with heavy game dishes such as roast pheasant. Times, Sunday Times
Another interesting feature about pheasants is the extraordinary difference in plumage between the sexes, a gap equalled only between the blackcock and greyhen and quite unknown in the partridge, quail and grouse. Birds in the Calendar
The no-man area is a paradise of wildlife, such as wild ass, wild horse, Tibetan antelope, Mongolian gazelle, blue sheep, and Tibetan pheasant. It is rich in plants and mineral resources too.
The stand of pheasants will have increased sufficiently in numbers to warrant an excellent hunting season.
It was hardly the stuff of Johnny Wilkinson - much more the flight of a winged pheasant, but they all count!
They passed a counter above which hung trusses of pigeons, pheasants and other less identifiable but more disturbing birds.
Thus, he lists as noblest the meat of turtledoves, starlings, doves, quails, pheasants, blackbirds, woodcock, partridge, and chaffinch.
Black pheasants scampered away into the long grass and a flock of white doves swooped between the trees ahead of us. Times, Sunday Times
I was surprised to see a crested argus there - this rare pheasant is believed to be restricted to Gunung Tahan and a few nearby peaks.
Go for a walk on the land under threat and you will hear larks, pheasants, you'll see deer and at night you'll hear foxes and owls.
The principal game birds of Britain are grouse, partridge, pheasant, plus woodcock, pigeon, quail, and various wild duck and marsh fowl.
A variety of fish may be easily observed through the clear waters of the rivers, while hornbills and argus pheasants have been sighted within the dense greenery.
The smokehouse smokes anything that stands still for long enough; pheasant, ham hocks, bloaters, garlic, eel, sausages.
Chop pheasant carcass into 6 pieces, add to stockpot, and brown lightly.
The tragopans are horned pheasants with short bills and tail feathers that are shorter than wing length.
I was aiming at a pheasant and he shot it in front of my hide.
A final goal was to determine if the grey peacock pheasant is a pheasant or a peafowl.
They are given names such as driven pheasant, bolting rabbit and dropping duck. Times, Sunday Times
I've tasted many clarets of this level of quality with both venison and pheasant, and in every case it has proved an enjoyable accompaniment.
Unlike grouse, pheasants are easy to breed and have much more meat, feeding three comfortably. Times, Sunday Times
Gorgeous woven korowai are adorned with feathers from kereru, peahen, pukeko and pheasant.
I've got her all excited about the sport, and use a dummy with a pheasant skin strapped to it for retrieving practice. What, where, and how is the best way to hunt pheasants without a dog. Thanks.
Take the hullabaloo about the shooting party, reported to include the Duke of Edinburgh, which shot some pheasant on the Sandringham estate in view of some schoolchildren.
Pheasant: readily available and surprisingly cheap, any chicken recipe can be adapted for pheasant.
Birds affected by this disease are fowls, bantams, turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants, guinea fowl and other wild and captive birds, including ratites such as ostriches, emus and rhea.
The sides of the Berg were full of quail and partridge and bush pheasant, and on the grassy plateau there was abundance of a bird not unlike our own blackcock, which the Dutch called korhaan. Prester John
He restocked his land with pheasants
Not so long ago the standard patterns were either seal's fur buzzers, or similar flies in pheasant-tail, or some dark coloured herl.
Other birds that are typical of these high-altitude ecosystems and can be used as focal species for conservation management planning include the blood pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus), western tragopan (Tragopan melanoephalus), Satyr tragopan (Tragopan satyra), and Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus), which inhabit the shrubby ground cover, and the large avian predators, lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus), golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), and Himalayan griffon (Gyps himalayensis). Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
• Other species you can hear include wood pigeon, carrion crow, blue tit, blackcap, mallard, pheasant, coot and the great-crested grebe. Listen to the National Trust audio guide to Britain's bird species
One of his favourite stories is of the day when he caught some villains in the act of shooting with an air gun at his beehives in the Pheasantry Garden of Bushy Park.
It was full of game: teeming with pheasants, marmot, jerboas, and giant fluffy bustards which could hardly fly. KARA KUSH
Pale-capped pigeon Columba punicea (VU) in the evergreen forest, green peafowl Pavo muticus (VU) and silver oriole Oriolus mellianus (VU) in the dipterocarp/deciduous forest and masked finfoot Heliopais personata (VU) from the riverside are resident. 53 species are considered nationally threatened or near threatened, including four species of hornbill, Siamese fireback pheasant Lophura diardi, the rare silver pheasant Lophura nycthemera and the mountain imperial pigeon Ducula badia. Dong Phayayan Khao-Yai Forest Complex, Thailand
Cedar waxwings, crows, finches, flycatchers, grosbeaks, grouse, jays, mockingbirds, pheasants, thrushes, vireos, and woodpeckers feed on their fruits.
Lotus Lake used to be a huge basin surrounded by a lotus and water caltrop field, causing it to become the habitat of pheasant-tailed jacanas.
You talk about invasive species, you mean like brown trout, honey bees, night crawlers, ringneck pheasants, or Hungarian partridge? The founding fathers believed that governments are instituted among men for the sole purpose of protecting human rights.
The game - strange list - included pheasant, swan, heron, crane, curlew, partridge, plover, rails and quails, but also three different dishes of venison.
The pheasantry should be placed on high, well-drained ground with a southern exposure, where the soil is good enough to raise clover, oats, and barley. Three Acres and Liberty
Whats sportsman is there who at some time may not have been crossed by a flock of geese or a plump of wild ducks as he has been shooting pheasants or woodcocks?
This place, like all bogland, only appeared barren and empty; it was actually teeming with life: foxes and pheasants, hares and birds and insects and strange plants, a huge variety of miniature and microscopic worlds. FALSE MERMAID
The club also built a new pheasant pen during the summer and it was used to release birds later.
The pheasants are getting cleverer, the grouse wilier. Times, Sunday Times
Heat the oil in a flameproof casserole and fry the pheasant pieces until lightly golden.
Not just the obvious things like fresh killed lamb and free range eggs but rabbits, the odd hare, a pheasant or two, plus the odd plump trout from the beck, field mushrooms from Hard Rock Farm and bilberries from the side of Tup Fell.
Rocky Mountains watered by the Columbia River. at least we did not See them untill we reached the waters of that river, nor Since we have left those mountains. they are about the Size of a well grown hen. the contour of the bird is much that of the redish brown Pheasant common to our country. the tail is proportionably as long and is composed of 18 feathers of equal length, of a uniform dark brown tiped with black. the feathers of the body are of a dark brown black and white. the black is that which most prodomonates, and white feathers are irregularly intermixed with those of the black and dark brown on every part but in greater perpotion about the neck breast and belly. this mixture gives it very much the appearance of that kind of dunghill fowl, which the henwives of our Countrey Call dommanicker. in the brest of Some of those birds the white prodominates most. they are not furnished with tufts of long feathers on the neck as other Pheasants are, but have a The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Reviews the 250 species of pheasants, partridges, grouse, quails, turkeys, guineafowls, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and plains-wanderers of the world.
From the flat of the valley rose a nicely engineered path and we went over the boardwalks and down by the river and found, a week early for Easter, and early in the season, a freshly-emptied parchment-brown pheasant egg.
After searching the outbuildings, including the pheasant pens, he and his son moved to land at the back of the farm.
The menu was meat-heavy: fowl, pheasant, tripe, pork, steak, lamb and duck, cooked in a variety of ways.
A lot of birds being imported from a distance would do his stock good in the way of crossing with new blood, which is necessary where a large head of pheasants are annually reared.
Guinea fowl meat is white like chicken but its taste is more reminiscent of pheasant, without excessive gamey flavor.
Even the most parvenu journalist is, or should be, taught at his first shoot that grouse and partridges are counted in brace, pheasants singly.
Most game birds are also galliforms, including grouse, partridges, pheasants, quails, ptarmigans, and wild turkeys.
Along with the common ringneck pheasant and chukar partridge, the rare ‘blue’ pheasant (listed as ‘green’ by the State Department of Fish and Game), black francolin, gray francolin, and both lace-necked and barred doves can be pursued.
I watched lapwings competing for nest sites on the damp fields where I also saw pheasants, grey partridges, teal and mallards.

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