[NatureNS] Albino pheasant

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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:14:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Paul MacDonald <paulrita2001@yahoo.com>
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Hi Peter and Richard
A few years ago, several growers in the province
produced white pheasants for a market in St Pierre and
Miquelon. Prehaps they still do.
Prehaps a few might have escaped?
Have a nice fall
Paul

--- Peter Hope <peterhope@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:

> That is an interesting sighting Richard. I have
> never seen a mostly white 
> pheasant but many years ago I saw a melanistic hen
> pheasant. I just can't 
> remember how much black plumage she had but it was a
> lot.
> 
> While it appears a lot of white animals and birds
> are being seen I suspect 
> that it is just because many more keen observers are
> out looking and then we 
> have the internet to inform so many people while
> years ago a person just 
> told a few friends.
> 
> Pete Hope
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Stern" <sternrichard@gmail.com>
> To: "NatureNS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:12 PM
> Subject: [NatureNS] Albino pheasant
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > One of our dogs scared up a Ring-necked pheasant
> this afternoon from
> > the marshy area on our property, that was pure
> white apart from a few
> > gray patches on the wings, body and tail.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > -- 
> > #################
> > Richard Stern,
> > 317 Middle Dyke Rd.,
> > RR#1 Port Williams,
> > NS, Canada B0P 1T0
> >
> > rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca
> > rbstern@xcountry.tv
> > sternrichard@gmail.com
> > ###################
> > 
> 
> 
> 



 
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