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Hunting- In The New York Area => New York Small Game Hunting => Topic started by: grazan on January 25, 2022, 09:25:00 AM

Title: What is this?
Post by: grazan on January 25, 2022, 09:25:00 AM
a friend of mine in DUTCHESS sent this to me walking in his yard https://youtu.be/jhhkqdM8NVc ... is it a pheasant or peacock or something else?
Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: GrizG on January 25, 2022, 09:32:51 AM
It looks a lot like the white peacocks they have at the Nature Center in Kingston.
Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: Geezer on January 25, 2022, 09:45:23 AM
I have never seen a pheasant with a tail that long. It look small for a peafowl, but I think GrizG is probably right, White Peacock.
Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: GrizG on January 25, 2022, 11:11:11 AM
Update: When I watched the video in full screen a few times it looks more like a pheasant the way the head is shaped and way it moves. The tail looked wrong... however, thinking it could be a mature bird (big ones in the mid-west look different from what we see) or a subspecies I dug around the web.

It does seem to look like the White pheasant or Silver pheasant, a specie of bird found in China Myanmar and Thailand per https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/white-pheasant-silver-specie-bird-found-739153690

That someone imported them would not surprise me. After all, pheasants aren't native to the U.S. either.

Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: Geezer on January 25, 2022, 12:03:39 PM
Nice. I've only seen the ringneck before. You must have a neighbor that likes to have exotic birds in his yard.
Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: Appleman on January 25, 2022, 06:05:05 PM
If it flushes 100 yards out of range in the laurel---it could be what I am thinking is our shy R Grouse ;D
Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: DXT on January 25, 2022, 06:27:09 PM
If it flushes 100 yards out of range in the laurel---it could be what I am thinking is our shy R Grouse ;D
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Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: Camp Cook on January 25, 2022, 06:50:29 PM
Silver pheasant.   I used to raise them for exhibition.
Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: walkabout on January 26, 2022, 06:08:25 AM
would of thought it was some kind of peacock myself.
Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: GrizG on January 26, 2022, 10:34:58 AM
If it flushes 100 yards out of range in the laurel---it could be what I am thinking is our shy R Grouse ;D
The exceedingly rare white phase ruff...  ;)
Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: KillerCrow on January 27, 2022, 07:41:49 AM
camp cook i am with you looks a lot like the male silvers we used to have
Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: Ziffystriperchum on January 27, 2022, 05:40:21 PM
If it flushes 100 yards out of range in the laurel---it could be what I am thinking is our shy R Grouse ;D
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