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The Common Pheasant is a large, colorful game bird native to Asia that has been introduced to many parts of the world, including Europe and North America, where it thrives in open woodlands and grasslands. It matters because it is widely hunted for sport and food, making it economically important, and its presence in non-native regions has significant ecological effects on local wildlife and habitats.
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Male of hybrid stock in PolandNote thin white neck-band due to a ring-necked subspecies' contribution to hybrid gene pool
The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), ring-necked pheasant, or blue-headed pheasant, is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae). The genus name comes from Latin phasianus 'pheasant'. The species name colchicus is Latin for 'of Colchis' (modern day Georgia), a country on the Black Sea where pheasants became known to Europeans. Although Phasianus was previously thought to be closely related to the genus Gallus, the genus of junglefowl and domesticated chickens, recent studies show that they are in different subfamilies, having diverged over 20 million years ago.