{"id":6787,"date":"2012-12-14T05:16:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T12:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=6787"},"modified":"2024-09-24T04:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T09:27:37","slug":"male-ring-necked-pheasant-in-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/12\/14\/male-ring-necked-pheasant-in-habitat\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Ring-necked Pheasant in marsh habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MaleMale Ring-necked Pheasant in habitat – Nikon D200, f6.3, 1\/640, ISO 400, +0.7 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

Ring-necked Pheasants are colorful upland game birds that are native to Asia and were introduced into North America for recreational hunting purposes and now occur widespread across southern Canada and in many areas of the U.S. except for\u00a0some of\u00a0the southern states.<\/p>\n

Their preferred habitats include fallow fields, hedgerows, mixed agricultural lands, wooded river bottoms and marshes. This\u00a0male\u00a0was photographed a few years ago at Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area<\/span><\/a> in northern Utah during the winter not long after a\u00a0snow storm. I wish I hadn’t clipped the tail because I loved this wintry setting.<\/p>\n

They\u00a0are very colorful birds!<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to view more of my Ring-necked Pheasant photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ring-necked Pheasants are colorful upland game birds that are native to Asia and were introduced into North America for recreational hunting purposes and now occur widespread across southern Canada and in many areas of the U.S. except for some of the southern states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022,697,400,26],"tags":[4004,1124,683,4062,4094,4255,4821,4822,2011,4050,401,373],"class_list":["post-6787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-davis-county-utah","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-ring-necked-pheasants","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-field","tag-habitat-2","tag-male","tag-marsh","tag-phasianus-colchicus","tag-pheasant","tag-pheasants","tag-ring-necked-pheasant","tag-snow","tag-upland-game-birds","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ring-necked-pheasant-mia-mcpherson-9417.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-1Lt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7151,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/01\/17\/ring-necked-pheasant-males-in-the-snow\/","url_meta":{"origin":6787,"position":0},"title":"Ring-necked Pheasant Males In The Snow","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"January 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Ring-necked Pheasant males are far more colorful than the females and in snow they seem even more vividly colored.","rel":"","context":"In "Birds"","block_context":{"text":"Birds","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/avian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Male Ring-necked Pheasant running down a snow bank, northern Utah","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ring-necked-pheasant-male-mia-mcpherson-0429.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ring-necked-pheasant-male-mia-mcpherson-0429.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ring-necked-pheasant-male-mia-mcpherson-0429.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ring-necked-pheasant-male-mia-mcpherson-0429.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1736,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2011\/01\/01\/ring-necked-pheasant\/","url_meta":{"origin":6787,"position":1},"title":"Ring-necked Pheasant","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"January 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Male Ring-necked Pheasants are very colorful and sport red face wattles, iridescent ear tufts, the white neck ring and bronze colored chest and back with barring. 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