Reeves pheasants are notoriously vicious. Being stabbed by their spurs is not fun. However, they are one of my favourite pheasants, along with the golden pheasant.
This bird is proving to be quite aggressive, although not as much so as one of his predecessors. The zoo also used to have a cock Golden Pheasant known affectionately (?) as "killer psycho pheasant"; in my days as the UK's worst zoo keeper he managed to get on to my head once, but did not draw too much blood.
Reeves pheasants are notoriously vicious. Being stabbed by their spurs is not fun.
There's a stately home near Cambridge where they are running around free in the parkland. There are warning notices about them- I wondered why, now I know.
Reeves pheasants are notoriously vicious. Being stabbed by their spurs is not fun.
There's a stately home near Cambridge where they are running around free in the parkland. There are warning notices about them- I wondered why, now I know.
Yep. Unfortunately it's just the way they are. Doesn't matter if they have females with them or not.. They've been put in a pheasant walk through before (I don't mean at Sewerby however) in the hope that all the space would perhaps just keep them away from the public but they were taken out soon after people kept saying they were being.. "Feisty".
Talking of 'fiesty' male Pheasants. I knew of a Silver Pheasant male once that was in a free-range area. He would attack ladies, but not men. I have seen domestic fowl cockerels that behave like that too.
