Albino/white pheasant

iverjohnston

Hi all,
Had a White pheasant/ Albino Pheasant stepping round the edge of one of the silage fields a few evenings ago. Sides of his face were scarlet. You would imagine that the lack of camouflage would not help their survival rate? anyone else come across one? Got some very poor footage on the phone, typical, I couldn't get it to zoom when it was needed.:rolleyes:

richiedel123

iverjohnston wrote: »

Hi all,
Had a White pheasant/ Albino Pheasant stepping round the edge of one of the silage fields a few evenings ago. Sides of his face were scarlet. You would imagine that the lack of camouflage would not help their survival rate? anyone else come across one? Got some very poor footage on the phone, typical, I couldn't get it to zoom when it was needed.:rolleyes:

A mate of mine bred a few this year. They use them as marker birds on driven shoots and estates. I released a few myself last year but didn't see them after to be honest

rugerman

Watching this lad with awhile he has a good number of hens with him aswell

charlie10

i dogged in at a driven shoot last year and my cocker hunted a white cock out of cover and when we got to guns ,one of the lads had got him ,nice momento to take home from the day never saw one wild though

goss101

was out for a few crows two weeks ago and there was one down at a feeding trough picking away, drove up to have a look at him later on and he just stood and looked back at me, not a loss on him!

vapour_trail

Our club bought in a few 2 or 3 years ago. We werent supposed to shoot them until a competition at Christmas but none were ever seen after the day of release. Found plenty of patches of white feathers though. Easy pickings for birds of prey I reckon.

shotie

i let off a few a couple of years ago and i often see the odd one around my area while out never bothered to shot one do. mite knock one this year and get it mounted onto a bit of bog oak .