The Phasian Bird

The Phasian Bird is a 1948 novel by the English writer Henry Williamson. Set in Norfolk during World War II, it interweaves the stories of a hybrid pheasant and an artist-turned-farmer who experiments with new cultivation methods.

Reception
Kirkus Reviews wrote that "Mr. Williamson writes knowingly but without any particular stimulation and his story rarely comes to life". Nature wrote that Williamson used his "well-known vivid style" in "a picture of endless effort to cultivate the stern land, of despair and bitter frustration, of endurance and grim determination that win through".