Animal field guide
Pheasant
Phasianus colchicus
Pheasant is an indexed AnimalDex species with a field profile connected to live captures, canonical stats, and collection progress.
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Bird · Pheasant habitat data is maintained · Relatively common
Known for: Recognized in AnimalDex as Pheasant, Indexed profile #2217
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Understand the Pheasant
Factual biology first: what this animal is like, where it lives, how it survives, and why those traits exist.
Introduction to Pheasant
Why?Pheasant is an indexed AnimalDex species with a field profile connected to live captures, canonical stats, and collection progress.
How to identify a Pheasant
- Recognized in AnimalDex as Pheasant
- Indexed profile #2217
Adaptations and biological abilities
Why?- Recognized in AnimalDex as Pheasant
- Indexed profile #2217
Why does Pheasant behave this way?
Why?- Blend into your surroundings to avoid unnecessary attention.
Why Pheasant habitat data is maintained in the live AnimalDex field guide.?
Why?Habitat: Pheasant habitat data is maintained in the live AnimalDex field guide.
Native range: Pheasant habitat data is maintained in the live AnimalDex field guide.
Why this diet?
Why?Pheasant usually eats a mixed bird diet shaped by habitat, season, and bill function. Many birds combine animal protein with seeds, fruit, or other plant material.
- Insects and other small invertebrates
- Seeds, grain, fruit, or nectar depending on species
- Occasional small vertebrates, eggs, or scavenged food
Breeding season often increases the need for protein-rich prey even in birds that eat more plant material at other times.
Conservation and rarity
Why?Rarity: Relatively common · 12/100. AnimalDex canonical rarity score: 12/100, maintained by the live indexed species profile.
- Observe from a respectful distance and avoid changing the animal's behavior.
- Do not block feeding, shelter, nesting, or travel routes.
- Use a live camera capture without handling or staging wildlife.
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Where to find them
Where to find Pheasant
To find Pheasant in the wild, focus on the exact habitat patches that match its body design and daily behavior, not just the broad country where it exists. You usually do better by working one good piece of habitat inside pheasant habitat data is maintained in the live AnimalDex field guide. than by covering too much ground.
- Pheasant habitat data is maintained in the live AnimalDex field guide.
- Protected habitat blocks within pheasant habitat data is maintained in the live AnimalDex field guide.
Animal field guide
Pheasant
Pheasant is an indexed AnimalDex species with a field profile connected to live captures, canonical stats, and collection progress.
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Native range
Location unknown
AnimalDex does not have a mapped native range region for this profile yet.
AnimalDex stats
Dominance
35
Speed
50
Size
30
Intelligence
30
Rarity
12%
Total
157
Size scale
Scientific name
Phasianus colchicus
Category
Bird
Habitat
Pheasant habitat data is maintained in the live AnimalDex field guide.
Rarity
Relatively common · 12/100
Native range
Pheasant habitat data is maintained in the live AnimalDex field guide.
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