Talk:Golden pheasant

Redundancy, etc.
Golden pheasants seems to duplicate some of the content of this article but is less complete and is not well written. It does contain a more complete description of the bird albeit with numerous typographical errors and errors of punctuation and grammar. It may violate the copywrite of the external link. If no one objects, I'm inclined to replace the content with a redirect to this article. Walter Siegmund (talk) 02:54, 25 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Definitely go for the merge. --Ginkgo100 talk · e@ 20:40, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Support merge. Walter Siegmund (talk) 15:31, 21 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Done, may need cleaning, jimfbleak 12:23, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Feeding
first it says 'They feed on the ground on grain, leaves and invertebrates' then in the very next paragraph it says 'They tend to eat berries, grubs, seeds and other types of vegetation.' Could/should those be combined in one paragraph to grain, invertebrates, berries, and other types of vegatation. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xiahou (talk • contribs) 04:14, 9 December 2006 (UTC).

Source?
The Golden Pheasant was the subject of BBC's Best of Natural History, 2013-04-28. Maybe it can be used as a source. Download URL (audio, 21 min 59 secs, MP3, 10.1 MB). The annotation to the radio broadcast/podcast is:


 * "One of Britain's scarcest birds is also one of its most beautiful. The flame-coloured golden pheasant is a riot of red, orange and bronze and is native to Chinese forests. The birds are popular around the world as ornamental species and over the years have been introduced on country estates. Brett Westwood joins Paul Stancliffe of the British Trust for Ornithology in search of wild golden pheasants in the conifer woods of Norfolk. Here, in spite of their bright colours, they are very elusive and behave much as they do in their native China, skulking in dense undergrowth and glimpsed only as they dash across rides. As numbers in China are in decline, do our UK pheasants have an international importance? They prefer to run rather than fly and call loudly at dusk in spring, so this visit is the best chance that Paul and Brett have to see one - a bird that's one of the toughest challenges that the countryside can offer."

--Mortense (talk) 19:34, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Edit request for the main image
Can you tell any editors that there are any high quality images of the bird's full body? Esagurton (talk) 07:44, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

introduction into other countries
I came across an article about the Golden Pheasant being classed as 'functionally extinct' in the UK (does the wiki need updating?) and mentioned how it became a naturalised bird in the UK but no reason as to why? Is it because it's a game bird? I need to know 2A00:23C7:95AD:9701:25DA:8A40:2697:165C (talk) 12:36, 22 July 2023 (UTC)