This morning, I got a call from Debby Bruce who said she had just
received a call from a woman who had a chicken-like bird in her yard
with a very yellow head. Debby asked me to check it out since she was
tied up at her and Ben's Wildbird Unlimited store. I grabbed my
MacKinnon & and Phillipps "Birds of China" and went off to investigate.
Sure enough, wondering around a back yard in Fox Meadows was a
absolutely resplendent male Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus). What
is ironic, at least to me, is I just returned last week from a trip to
China where this fairly wide-spread bird was nowhere to be seen only to
have it show up in a yard in Memphis. The hind toes appeared to have
been clipped, but it sure was eye-candy. (I did see an Elliot's
Pheasant along the Yangtse) The woman in whose yard the bird was seen
is ill, so I don't feel I should be any more specific as to location.
Virginia Reynolds
Memphis, Shelby County
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