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For Some Male Pheasants, Love Really Is Blind. Their Elaborate Feathers That Impress Females Also Obstruct Their Vision
The adornments on the heads of male Lady Amherst’s and golden pheasants partially block their sight, according to new ...
Female pheasants have surprised researchers by running into corn and soybean fields — but not just for the crops. Female pheasants, Minnesota researchers have found, often abandon natural grasslands — ...
Reader Brenda Neville, of Lodi, emailed me the following this morning. She wrote: " I read about the decision to close Reynold's Game Farm. While I can't argue the reasoning behind this decision, I do ...
The male Lady Amherst's pheasant knows how to put on a show when it comes to attracting mates. As well as elaborate courtship displays, they will unfurl their golden feathers to form a cape around ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract From 1992 to 1995 we used radiotelemetry to monitor winter habitat selection and survival of female ring-necked pheasants (Phasianus Colchicus ...
To prepare for a fight, a pheasant’s head cools down due to a stress response, which is of the same level no matter where the pheasant sits in the pecking order. A team of researchers set out to learn ...
Pheasant hunters aren’t just good at flushing out the birds they’re hunting. They’re pretty adept at figuring out where the Pennsylvania Game Commission is likely to stock them. As Warden Zebulun ...
Pheasants' heads cool rapidly as they prepare to fight -- then heat up afterwards, new research shows. Pheasants' heads cool rapidly as they prepare to fight -- then heat up afterwards, new research ...
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