[TN-Bird] New Yard Bird

This morning, I got a call from Debby Bruce who said she had just received a call from a woman who had a chicken-like bird in her yard with a very yellow head. Debby asked me to check it out since she was tied up at her and Ben's Wildbird Unlimited store. I grabbed my MacKinnon & and Phillipps "Birds of China" and went off to investigate. Sure enough, wondering around a back yard in Fox Meadows was a absolutely resplendent male Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus). What is ironic, at least to me, is I just returned last week from a trip to China where this fairly wide-spread bird was nowhere to be seen only to have it show up in a yard in Memphis. The hind toes appeared to have been clipped, but it sure was eye-candy. (I did see an Elliot's Pheasant along the Yangtse) The woman in whose yard the bird was seen is ill, so I don't feel I should be any more specific as to location.
Virginia Reynolds
Memphis, Shelby County

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