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zebo | 09:30 Tue 11th Mar 2014 | Twitching & Birdwatching
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In the lane where we live, we regularly see pheasants. Since the heavy rain we have noticed a large bird which, in outline, looks like an adult pheasant, but it is jet black with a red head.
Does anyone know what it might be?
I say since the heavy rains because since then we have had large ducks appearing in the garden that seem to be a bit lost!
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Black pheasants are not unknown. Visiting Glen Isla we came across a whole group of them by the roadside. Easy to distinguish from grouse, which have short tails compared to the long tails of pheasnts...

http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/wildlife/f/901/p/30419/215508.aspx
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Thanks both for taking the time to help me! It's too big to be a grouse, but the link to the RSPB site looks to have the fellow in the first photograph, so it seems to be a black pheasant. You're never too old to learn something new, thanks again.
I've occasionally seen black ones on my travels, if its sunny they sometimes appear a dark bottle green iridescence, if you can get close enough

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