Black With Red Head

[zebo]

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!

[Peaspeculiars]

A grouse?

http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=fNkd6hpTbcNOODXO0v2Nl4h4l5k2TGxc#.Ux7YYvl_vFA

[heathfield]

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

[zebo]

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.

[Chipchopper]

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