[NatureNS] Ring-necked Pheasant

Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:41:03 -0300
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Paul et al.:

According to the on-line Breeding Bird Survey and Christmas Bird Count results
for Nova Scotia, pheasants have increased here more than 10-fold since the mid
1960s and more than five-fold since the mid 1980s. So, what you see is what's
happening.

This is not a good thing. They are nest-predators on grassland and brushland
birds. I wonder if the disapapearance of Gray Partridge has been abetted by
them; the partridge are thriving in PEI where pheasants haven't yet become so
common.

Cheers, Ian McLaren

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