ML474135261
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Yellow Golden Pheasant seen in the wild, photo #3.
Detalles de la observación
I believe this bird is actually a Yellow Golden Pheasant, but that was not a species selection option even when I manually entered the name to try to add it to the checklist. I had originally included the bird on this checklist as a Golden Pheasant, and then removed it later, based on the old eBird rules for exotic bird sightings and the fact that it wasn't a normal Golden Pheasant. But now, with the recent eBird changes that allow it to be categorized as an Exotic>Escapee, I am hopeful it can remain on the checklist. Bird acted basically in the same manner as a naturalized/wild Ring-necked Pheasant; while foraging in the tree row and along the edge of a mowed-grass field, it tolerated my presence at a distance of more than 30 yards while I remained motionless in my vehicle, but it moved back toward cover as I slowly rolled the vehicle closer, with the bird hesitating briefly before and after it entered the brush-filled tree row, disappearing from view. I did not pursue the bird. Later, I called the Game & Fish department to see if anyone was registered as raising pheasants in the area, and no one was licensed to do so, but NDG&F reps also said there was nothing really preventing someone from ordering a few of these birds and having them delivered to their home/farm/ranch. One local person I contacted (a Parks employee seen mowing a nearby park) said he'd heard people discussing the bird, but no one he'd heard talking knew anything about where it might have come from.
Información técnica
- Model
- Canon EOS REBEL T4i
- Lens
- EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 250 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/320 sec
- Dimensions
- 2000 pixels x 1500 pixels
- Original file size
- 3.8 MB