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Where does the Ring-necked Pheasant live?

Phasianus colchicus has 3,424,381 records in 104 countries and territories, from 1690 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Ring-necked Pheasant
Ring-necked Pheasant — Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesGalliformesPhasianidaePhasianus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 810,500
United Kingdom 514,376
Netherlands 378,988
Sweden 296,364
Belgium 260,198
France 217,779
Denmark 199,738
Canada 182,285
Germany 106,599
Finland 73,411
Taiwan 36,536
New Zealand 33,507
Czechia 30,588
China 30,022
Italy 28,580
Poland 26,437
South Korea 24,362
Norway 23,611
Ireland 20,673
Austria 20,459
Spain 14,327
Hungary 13,504
Serbia 11,016
Ukraine 7,912
Bulgaria 7,377
Slovakia 6,926
Isle of Man 6,207
Croatia 6,106
Russia 5,848
Romania 4,986
Japan 4,055
Slovenia 1,884
Kazakhstan 1,869
Portugal 1,847
Australia 1,551
Switzerland 1,401
Türkiye 1,359
Moldova 1,320
Mexico 1,084
Kyrgyzstan 1,023

Showing the top 40 of 104 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.