He appeared again in the field next to my house with a female pheasant. congratulations ! What a brightly colored wild life.The Green Pheasant is the bird of Japan, but I have never seen it before taking photos.
I saw this Male in breeding plumage at about 12,000 feet. Notice how camouflaged it is. They are very tame and allow close approach, if you can find them. White-tailed Ptarmigan were introduced in the 70's by the DWR to the Uintas, but there were reports of them before that up here, but none fully document because they were seen by stock men, about the only people who came up here before the 70's. Now they are found throughout the alpine zone of the Uintas. They are definitely native to the White River Plateau in Colorado just a hundred or so miles to the east.
The Crested Wood Partridge, Rollulus rouloul, also known as the Crested Partridge, Roul-roul, Red-crowned Wood Partridge or Green Wood Partridge is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. It is the only member of the genus Rollulus.This small partridge is a resident breeder in lowland rainforests in south Burma, south Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. Its nest is a ground scrape lined with leaves, which is concealed under a heap of leaf litter. Five or six white eggs are incubated for 18 days.Unusually for a galliform species, the young are fed bill-to-bill by both parents instead of pecking from the ground, and although precocial, they roost in the nest while small.
Male Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus) in captivity at the Birds of Eden Park Free Flight Bird Sanctuary at Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. Photographed on 19 June 2012.Native of Central Asia.www.inaturalist.org/observations/52635727