Talk:Ring-necked pheasant

message: Excellent job! I give credit to who actually took the time to edit and fix the page to a readable state.
Edson88888 (talk) 20:52, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Clean-Up 

message: Both are commonly used.  A quick search on google will produce many authortative sources useing both.  For instance see http://gf.nd.gov/pubs/upland-game-id.html and scroll down to the picture of a rooster.--Counsel 23:57, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The anon edit above is from user:212.42.10.194, who is correct. Roosters are male chickens (in the USA) - cockerels or cocks elsewhere. jimfbleak 12:24, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cock or Rooster 

message: Following belongs in main pheasant article if it's even true (which it's not in the UK, at least):
"The term pheasant can also be used for other gallinaceous birds such as the quail or partridge, and in North America it is occasionally used to refer to the ruffed grouse."
BarryNorton 13:19, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree - never heard it in that sense. jimfbleak 15:23, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have heard of grouse and chukar called called partriges, but never anything other that a pheasant called a pheasant.--Counsel 18:55, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  More general use of term 

message: Two incompatible dates are quoted in the article for introduction to the US, 1913 and 1881 - can anyone clarify?  seglea 08:06, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction to US

message: :
The caption said "male" but there is a hen in there as well.  And the image is of poor quality (contrast is muddy, brightness is down).  TableManners (talk) 03:00, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image removed from gallary 

message: This article was EU-centric.  I am trying to correct and seperate as I figure this out.  However, it is a bit confusing in the intermediate stages of article development.  TableManners (talk) 05:04, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Europe centric 

message: Apropos of nothing, I hadn't realised how hunted P. versicolor were - 500000 per year (males only allowed) with up to 100000 annually released in Japan according to Madge and McGowan, who don't mention earthquakes. 
Shouldn't it be "feral" rather than wild in your table above, since it's a non-native sp? In practice, for non-ornithological purposes Common Pheasant is usually just referred to as Pheasant, since it's far and away the most widespread and abundant of our feral species - the other two are very localised and scarce. Similarly, Barn Swallow is the Swallow, Northern Wheatear is Wheatear and Northern Lapwing is Lapwing because other swallows, wheatears and lapwings are very rare. 
Anyway, time to see if the servants have ironed my newspaper, Jimfbleak (talk) 06:46, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Green Pheasant

message: The bird was brought to Great Britain around the 10th century, arguably earlier, by both the Romans[9] and the Normans, but became locally extinct in the early 17th century.
Er...neither Romans nor Normans were present in Britain in the 10th century - this statement makes close to no sense. john k (talk) 23:32, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh?