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WHAT CAN YOU HUNT IN BAJA CALIFORNIA?
Collar Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
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Other names are ring necked pheasant and phasianus torquatus. The collar pheasant is the same size of a chicken, both genders with pointy tail.
Male: blue-green head with green-gray crown and a red fleshy spot around the eye, white collar, dark brown torso with yellow spots in white and black; blue-green lower-back; brown wings with light blue coverings; lower parts mostly purpled-brown with curls and black drawings; yellow straw sides with black spots; black abdomen; tail with purple edges and black lists. |
Average Size: Non-extended wing, 213 to 246 mm; tail 408 to 513 mm, beak 38 to 43 mm, torso, 68 to 76 mm.
Average Weight: 1 100 to 1 400 gr.
Female: mostly matte brown with dark brown drawings and lines, especially on the dorsal surface; the tail is pointy with irregular matte brown.
Size: Non-extended wing 194 to 216 mm; tail 236 to 273 mm; beak 32 to 38 mm; torso 61 to 68 mm.
Average Weight: 850 to 1100 gr.
As a result of importing made directly from China in the year of 1912, there is a colony of this type in the Mexicali Valley . A few years later, in 1962, the California Hunting and Fishing Division released some specimens in the zone near to Imperial Valley on the other side of the border.
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