Chapter Page Acknowledgements 4 Preface 4 1. Introduction 7 2. Practical Considerations 11 3. Feeding 34 5. The Breeding Season 44 7.
Pheasants belong to a family that includes some of the most beautiful birds in the world.
Birds such as the Golden Pheasant ,famous in Chinese art, have delighted and benefited man for centuries but sadly many of them are today under threat as a result of his activities. Between these extremes we have thejungefowl. Pheasants belong to the order Galliformes which includes grouse, francolins and partridge as well as less well known birds such as curassows and megapodes. It isperhaps the only branch of aviculture where, for a very modest sum, a pair of an endangered species can be bought and offspring successfully reared. Many of the most threatened species are quite freely available to pheasant aviculturists.