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Thanks for watching! ❤

I think the orange belly really makes them stand out😀🧡

@@RobsBackyardCritters yes

And sillier

Yeah, they're cute 😊

True, it's quite the name 😉

@@RobsBackyardCritters lol 🤑

Happy you liked it 😄

Thank You!

I actually haven't seen the short-eared owl myself, but I've heard alot about it. Thanks for watching the video! 😀

Thanks for Watching!

Nice! 😀 Do you like their hoot? I only sometimes hear them in my area

Thank you very much! I too like the Hoopoe alot.

True, but they are fun to look at when they fly in flocks like that and can be pretty smart birds. Thanks for watching the video!

According to my research the word "woodcock" comes from old english and was first mentioned in 1050. This was the naming of the Eurasian woodcock in England. The name means wood+cock/bird. The bird was named that because it was very easy to catch, sort of like a cock/chicken because they can't fly that well. Hopefully this makes some sense 🫤

@@RobsBackyardCritters I guess if you can't catch these birds, ya ain't a very skilled hunter!

Nature sometimes can't be explained. These little birds bouncing up and down as they walk to mimic leaf movement while hunting for food is amazing. The question is, when they are on a hard surface, a road, they still think they have to bounce as they walk?

@@anndinoto wow, thank you. That is a very good explanation.

Ради еды или ради своих перьев?

It kinda does look like that 😂 Makes you remember the difference easily.

Thanks 😊 for sharing the video. I've enjoyed watching it more than once l. ​@@RobsBackyardCritters

Thank you so much❤ Wish you the best😊

You're welcome 😊

Dzienkuje!

The footage shown is not always correct, due to automatic videomaking(AI). But the narrating is as correct as possible. Thanks for watching!

dziękuję za tak miły komentarz :) przepraszam za polerkę 🇵🇱

It truly is, its a shame we see it mostly in winter time❄️

Thanks for the long explanation👍That's why I put a map and some of the subspecies at 0:35 explaining that the so called "common" pheasant comes from these species in Asia. The naming probably comes from the europeans and since I live in Europe myself I adopted the common pheasant as the official term. Thank you so much for watching and commenting❤

@RobsBackyardCritters, recent studies now show that black-breasted, black-necked, and ring-necked pheasants are now three separate polytypic species that are now believed to be only distantly related to each other and one of them being more closely related to the green pheasant (Phasianus versicolor), which would therefore make Phasianus colchicus paraphyletic, it is known that the ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus torquatus), which also has presences in both Hainan and Taiwan is the closest living relative of the green pheasant, with the black-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) being the sister species to the clade that contains the ring-necked pheasant and green pheasant and the black-breasted pheasant (Phasianus elegans) as the most basal and distantly related from all the other species, unlike the green pheasant that has only three extant subspecies, the other three species of the genus Phasianus, where its members are called "common pheasants" have large numbers of extant subspecies, the black-breasted pheasant (Phasianus elegans) has six subspecies under two subspecies groups: the Phasianus elegans elegans group that contains the Rothschild's Black-Breasted Pheasant (Phasianus elegans rothschildi), the Stone's Black-Breasted Pheasant (Phasianus elegans elegans), and the Qinghai Black-Breasted Pheasant (Phasianus elegans vlangallii) and the Phasianus elegans principalis group that contains the White-Winged Black-Breasted Pheasant (Phasianus elegans chrysomelas), the Bianchi's Black-Breasted Pheasant (Phasianus elegans bianchii), and the Prince of Wales's Black-Breasted Pheasant (Phasianus elegans principalis), the black-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) has twelve subspecies under three subspecies groups: the Phasianus colchicus decollatus group that contains the Kweichow Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus decollatus) and the Sungpan Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus suehschanensis), the Phasianus colchicus tarimensis group that contains the Satchu Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus satscheuensis), the Gangdisi Shan Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus gangdisishanensis), the Tarim Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus tarimensis), and the Yarkand Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus shawii), and the Phasianus colchicus colchicus group that contains the Amu-Darya Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus zarudnyi), the Persian Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus persicus), the Talisch Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus talischensis), the Caucasian Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus colchicus), the Turkish Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus turcicus), and the Caspian Black-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus septentrionalis), and the ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus torquatus) has eighteen subspecies under five subspecies groups: the Phasianus torquatus sohokhotensis group that contains the Strauch's Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus strauchi), the Sohokhoto Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torqautus sohokhotensis), and the Alashan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus alashanicus), the Phasianus torquatus torqautus group that contains the Tonkinese Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus takatsukasae), the Shandong Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus shandongensis), the Sichuan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus torquatus), the Hainan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus hainanus), and the Formosan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus formosanus), the Phasianus torquatus karpowi group that contains the Shansi Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torqautus kiangsuensis), the Mandarin Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus liaoningensis), the Manchurian Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus pallasi), and the Korean Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus karpowi), the Phasianus torqautus hagenbecki group that contains the Kobdo Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torqautus hagenbecki) and the Ruo Shui Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus edzinensis), and the Phasianus torquatus mongolicus group that contains the Mongolian Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus mongolicus), the Zerafshan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torqautus zerafschanicus), the Syr-Darya Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torqautus turcestanicus), and the Aral Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus bergii).

@@indyreno2933 Wow thanks for the info! So many species I haven't heard of