Re: Not a turkey attack, but....

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:23:25 -0400


"Barb Meserve" wrote:

>    It was the size and shape of a Ringnecked Pheasant, but had a white cap
> and throat, with a black line, similiar to a Chukars, (but thicker and a
> tighter loop) going through the eyes and around to the neck.  It didn't have
> the big fleshy red thing on the side of the face, but did have a fleshy red
> eye ring, similiar to a Blackbilled Cuckoo. It's body, in the evening
> sunlight had a beautiful iridescence to it.

Barb,

It sounds like you have seen a male Reeves Pheasant from Asia. Graham Egerton
and I found one one year at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant on a
Baltimore Harbor Christmas Bird Count.

Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com