pheasants

Hunting for pheasants is his favorite thing to do.

Best Gun Dog Contest 2009

The salt water will help draw out much of the blood and soda supposedly reduces the gamey taste (not much of that in pheasants).

"A friend gave me some pheasant breasts and pieces of chucker (I think?) 2009

Hunting for pheasants is his favorite thing to do.

Best Gun Dog Contest 2009

The salt water will help draw out much of the blood and soda supposedly reduces the gamey taste (not much of that in pheasants).

"A friend gave me some pheasant breasts and pieces of chucker (I think?) 2009

But plucking a brace of pheasants is such a messy job; my preference is for a gift of a nice carrier bag of venison (shot under licence of course.)

Simple Minds « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

I believe there are also cross - genus pheasant hybrids, though whether pheasants are as divergent as Buteonine hawks and Accipiters I haven't a clue.

The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas Darren Naish 2006

In a battle at the river Phasis (whence come the birds called pheasants, which are found in abundance at the banquets of the great all over the world) Tanausis, king of the Goths, met

The Origin and Deeds of the Goths Jordanes

And it will be some time before the moon serves again; and then the Christmas holidays will be coming on; and by next term the pheasants will all have been shot off.

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

Another pheasant answered him from somewhere above at the upper part of the wood, and it occurred to both of us that the pheasants were the night-riders, making their private signals.

Jim Davis John Masefield 1922

_American Homes and Gardens _has an account of the breeding of pheasants, which is of interest.

Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 1896