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Shooting pheasants

Shooting pheasants

A hunter lines up cock pheasants at a central North Island hunting preserve. Hunters generally move upwind, as the birds take off into the wind. After gaining height, the pheasants tend to turn and glide downwind towards cover.

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Titoki Pheasants
Photograph by Kerry Guy

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Neil Deans. 'Game birds', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 27-Sep-11
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/game-birds/3/3