Captive Pheasant list?

Cassidy Casuar said:
Are you sure? I have visited two zoos that do not house any Peafowl, but both of them house both Domestic Fowl and Helmeted Guinea-fowl.
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Yes, I'm sure that I have seen peafowl in a few different zoos and pictures on ZooChat show peafowl in other zoos in the Unites States that I have not visited.
 
temp said:
interestingly, I have heard knowledgeable people expressing doubts over the presence of pure Lady Amherst's pheasants in Europe or America. The Lady Amherst's that commonly are seen in zoos, are kept in the thousands by private keepers and were the basis for the introduced populations in various parts of the world are the result of lineages started a long, long time ago. Initially relatively few birds were available in the aviculture and information on separating female Lady Amherst's and female golden was not easily available. The females are very similar. The two species breed freely together and the hybrid offspring is fertile. After repeated backcrossing, any obvious external features that easily revealed the hybrid origin were deluted and eventually disappeared. They look like Lady Amherst's and may well be e.g. 95% Lady Amherst's but that isn't 100% pure. Regardless of their pedigree they are stunning display animals.

It is similar to red junglefowl of the wild form where most kept actually have genes from domestic chickens in them. In that species there has been a move by serious keepers to get the bird's DNA testet for purity to weed out any impure specimens from breeding programs.
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I have heard that about Lady Amherst and golden pheasant being crossed and that pure specimens of Lady Amherst are tough to find. I have also heard the same with red junglefowl and domestic fowl.
 
I've been to fifteen zoos this year which held pheasants, and thirteen of them had Indian peafowl (the next most-kept pheasant in those zoos was golden pheasant in eight zoos).
 
Chlidonias said:
I've been to fifteen zoos this year which held pheasants, and thirteen of them had Indian peafowl (the next most-kept pheasant in those zoos was golden pheasant in eight zoos).
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I've only seen goldens in Omaha myself. I have seen them in private collections. There are some interesting color morphs of them.
 
elefante said:
I've only seen goldens in Omaha myself. I have seen them in private collections. There are some interesting color morphs of them.
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I like some of the mutations of ring-necked pheasants, but with goldens and Lady Amherst's I only like the wild colouration.
 
Chlidonias said:
I like some of the mutations of ring-necked pheasants, but with goldens and Lady Amherst's I only like the wild colouration.
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Ringnecks do have some neat color variations. I think Indian peafowl also have some neat variations.
 
zooboy28 said:
You can see the lists of captive pheasants in New Zealand and Australia in the following threads:

http://www.zoochat.com/17/birds-new-zealand-zoos-205708/
http://www.zoochat.com/24/exotic-birds-australia-361821/

In NZ specifically, many smaller private zoos have peafowl, as do Auckland, Hamilton, and Natureland, mostly these are free-ranging birds. They are fairly common and easily available in the private sector. I'm not sure why Wellington Zoo and Orana Park don't have them.
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I know about those lists. Staglands is probably one of the best in New Zealand when it comes to the number of Indian Peafowl hosted, but I have yet to see any domestic Indian Peafowl in New Zealand that are not of the natural, leucistic or blue black-shoulder forms.
 
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