We have a pair of Ring-Necked Pheasants in my neighbourhood and they tend to be pretty secretive. You only sometimes see them running around on the fields and it’s always a delight! I have started calling them “fancy chickens” 😅

They’re not actually native to Germany but were brought here from Asia a long while ago. They were bred, let go and subsequently hunted as a sport. Nowadays, hunting them isn’t really common anymore, so they have begun becoming so common that most people wouldn’t think they weren’t native to here.

  • honeyontoast@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Suicidal chickens. See plenty of them standing at the roadside in the UK, their favourite pastime is running into traffic.

    Beautiful creatures but it’s so tense driving past them!