Ring-necked Pheasant - Kazakhstan Phasianus colchicus

Ring-necked Pheasant male
Common Pheasant male
This handsome Ring-necked Pheasant with a whitish wing and dark rump lives in a wooded park in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Ring-necked Pheasant male Kazakhstan
Ring-necked Pheasant male
Common Pheasant male
Photographs on this page are by Alexandra Makhnina.
Ring-necked Pheasant male
Ring-necked Pheasant male
Common Pheasant male Kazakhstan
His white wing coverts and spotted flank are reminiscent of the Khivan Pheasant of Turkestan but the white neck collar indicates also some Ring-necked ancestry.
Ring-necked Pheasant male Kazakhstan
Ring-necked Pheasant male
Common Pheasant male
Ring-necked Pheasant male Kazakhstan
Ring-necked Pheasant male Kazakhstan
Ring-necked Pheasant male Kazakhstan
Different male pheasant, some years later, same park.