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delvey91


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Got a new helmet cam and went on a quick test bimble today..... Caught this on camera. Looked like a pheasent but no normal one!

 



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Similarly I drove past a "black pheasant" with a couple of vivid green marks early one morning this week...are there exotic breeds now being lined up to be shot?



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Looks like  a Reeves Pheasant to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeves%27s_Pheasant

 

Bootiful plumage, but not indigenous to the UK.



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From that angle it looks more like a dragonfly but I respect Big T's observation.
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Quote from Wikipedia:

"The male is a brightly plumaged bird with a scaled golden white and red body plumage, grey legs, brown iris and red skin around eye. The head is white with a black narrow band across its eyes. The male has an extremely long silvery white tail barred with chestnut brown.

This spectacular pheasant is mentioned in the Guinness World Records 2008 for having the longest natural tail feather of any bird species; a record formerly held by the Crested Argus Pheasant. It can measure up to 2.4 metres or 8 feet (2.4 m) long."



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Re;Bootiful plumage

Why am I thinking parrot?

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Pete wrote:

Re;Bootiful plumage

Why am I thinking parrot?

 



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delvey91 wrote:

Got a new helmet cam and went on a quick test bimble today..... Caught this on camera. Looked like a pheasent but no normal one!

 

 Seen 2 in recent weeks, one up on Gittisham common - can't remember where the other one was hmm.



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I haven't seen any parrots but I have nearly run down a number of black pheasants recently

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Did you go off road or off earth?



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