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AFAIK, in the USA, the term "Ring-necked pheasant" refers to Phasianus colchicus, and Phasianus colchicus is generally known as the Ring-necked pheasant.
E.g.:

• American Heritage Dictionary - http://bartleby.com/61/33/R0253300.html
• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary - http://mw1.m-w.com/dictionary/ring-necked%20pheasant
• Natural Resources Conservation Service / United States Department of Agriculture (government) site - http://www.mt.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/ecs/biology/technotes/biotechnoteMT11.html
• U.S. Geological Survey (government) site - http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i3091id.html
• Interagency Ecological Program (government) site - http://www.iep.ca.gov/suisun_eco_workgroup/workplan/report/wildlife/pheasant.html
  -- Our articles should reflect this standard usage. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 00:35, 25 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

The Common Pheasant article said that as of 2005, that bird has the smallest known genome of all living amniotes, only 0.97 pg (970 million base pairs) and gives the source: "Animal Genome Size Database". but that source says the black-chinned hummingbird has the smallest genome of all birds. Aren't all birds amniotes? I've updated the articles to reflect that the black-chinned hummingbird now seems to have the smallest genome of birds and therefore also amniotes. Tom B (talk) 12:40, 25 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

The sentence "It is native to the country of Georgia" must be corrected or improved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.129.241.130 (talk) 23:01, 11 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

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User:Justlettersandnumbers You reverted my edits saying 'Not clear that this is an improvement, please discuss on talk'. If you are not sure you should discuss on talk, not unilaterally revert a good faith edit. Please explain, for instance, how on earth the female pheasant you prefer (tiny image, some tail missing), could be better than the image I inserted. And since I took both the images of the male, I am in a good position to judge which is more encyclopaedic. Charlesjsharp (talk) 08:51, 3 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

The huge ecological impact of pheasant rearing on insect populations, especially threatened species, should be covered. 80.7.168.14 (talk) 07:21, 27 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

The Common Pheasant in German is https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasan I can't link it in the choice of languages. 2001:4BC9:A46:6AEC:62A7:8DA:7A14:99BC (talk) 21:24, 2 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

I think I've fixed that – the German page was linked to generic pages such as our Pheasant. I can't see that de.wp has such a page. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:52, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

The only places I can find the term "phezzans" (based on a quick search) are citations of Datus C. Proper. Unless someone can get an independent source, the "chinks" and "phezzans" line should be removed. 23.129.0.30 (talk) 18:48, 7 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

Having read the source on Internet Archive, I second this (and may go ahead and remove it later if I remember and there's no response). The "phezzens" name is a rendering of an apocryphal Montana farmer speaking in an accent/with imprecise terminology. The "chinks" term was allegedly used by sportswriters "for a time" according to Proper (referencing the birds' Asian origin), and so a primary source calling them as such would be better.

Overall, I think the "phezzens" part should certainly be removed - we don't attempt to document phonetic renderings of regional pronunciations of animal names, after all.

Edit: having searched some more, I found at least one other place (here) which claims that Montanans refer to the birds as phezzens, though I'm unsure of whether this is really the type of source we can use as a reference. 2601:644:680:CE30:944F:2DEC:8A5B:4AA0 (talk) 05:55, 23 July 2025 (UTC)Reply