We also have a pair of Golden Pheasants here in Seward Park! Escapees or
someone dumping their exotic collection here in Seward Park?

Ed Dominguez
Lead Naturalist
Seward Park Audubon Center

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:40 PM Whitney Neufeld-Kaiser <
whitney.n.k at gmail.com> wrote:


> Someone seems to have let their pheasant collection loose in the park -

> another Tweeter wrote to me off-list and said she saw the Silver Pheasant

> on Sunday morning as well, along with three living male Golden Pheasants

> and one half-eaten male Golden Pheasant.

>

> Whitney

>

> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:33 PM Dennis Paulson <dennispaulson at comcast.net>

> wrote:

>

>> Whitney, Diana Sorus just posted a photo of it on her Facebook page and

>> asked me about it. It's a male Silver Pheasant, and I guess you only saw it

>> from above, as it has entirely black underparts.

>>

>> Dennis Paulson

>>

>> On Mar 18, 2020, at 12:01 PM, tweeters-request at mailman11.u.washington.edu

>> wrote:

>>

>> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:51:03 -0700

>> From: Whitney Neufeld-Kaiser <whitney.n.k at gmail.com>

>> To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>

>> Subject: [Tweeters] White pheasant in Seward Park

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>>

>> Hi, tweeters! Sunday morning I was walking the main trail that goes over

>> the crest of Seward Park, and I encountered what appeared to be a white

>> ring-necked pheasant. Very dramatic bird, all white with a red face. The

>> two videos I took were horrible, but the bird looked very much like this

>> one:

>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/nightjar/477443925

>>

>> Have others seen this bird? Am I the last birder in Seattle to know about

>> this?

>>

>> Cheers,

>> Whitney Neufeld-Kaiser

>> whitney.n.k at gmail.com

>>

>>

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