Thank you for the responses about my question on the pheasant with the
plastic piece in her beak. I haven't heard back from my customers but I
am hoping that they were able to catch the bird and remove this thing.
The bird was hanging around with a male pheasant but the male stopped
showing up.

Hope to see many of you at the WOS meeting Monday night.

Yvonne
Everett, Wa

Deborah Wisti-Peterson wrote:

> from your description, it sounds as though this bird is an
> escapee from someone's collection. i had always been told
> by pheasant breeders that the plastic piece that you described
> is affixed onto the bird to reduce/prevent them from
> picking and pecking each other when living in confined areas.