I was going to ask if they are native to North America?

Most pheasant come from Asia I believe. The most popular colourful is of Chinese origin I believe?

Imagine a govt dept which RELEASES pheasants for mere citizens to shoot???!!! WOW!

Here it would be a very secret men's business activity. In SAUST that is. Victorians can do it, and perhaps other states.

Here in SAust, we may have had big live bird shoots in the past. And it was probably banned completely, ie breeding birds to shoot, when pigeon shooting became clay pigeon shooting.

We still have a duck season though. But no quail this year. The current liberal (socialist) minister is a c@nt, and thought no one would be upset if he didn't declare a quail season ... anti hunting c@nt. The duck season was cut back as well "because of duck numbers and the drought ... ".

Raining well now for a while. Hopefully we continue to have good rains this year.