An edge of Helsinki, we are going to the train stop… and we see the phesant, second time this week, just walking around the neighbourhood like some local pigeon. Is it actually common in Finland? It is the first time I see it in ten years.
I don’t really know how common they are, it may depend on the area: if they have something to eat, they’ll be there, if not, you probably won’t see them.
A relative of mine lives in an area with sparse houses, and many of the people do some miniature scale farming, planting peas, beans, carrots, etc., and they regularly report pheasants eating their crops.
The males (such as the one you filmed) look really impressive.
Is this in itä-pakila?
I saw one of them right under my window today
My grandmother was in the paper a while back because she had 3 albino pheasants frequenting her backyard (among other normal ones)
Joq vitun fasaani
Free meal right there!
Mmmm pheasant breast . . .
Very common in Turku, once counted about 15-20 birds (male and female) on a 1-hour walk. Just on the north side of city center along the river.
Even the bird is over this weather. Wish it would get warmer.
Pheasants are common in places where
1) some have been released into the wild at some point in the past
2) people feed birds at winter
So a lot of cities and suburbs. They are not native here and won’t survive the winter in the wild. I’m not completely sure if some might make it in the far south, but at least in the rest of Finland this is the case.
I live in rural finland and we have like 10 female ones strolling our yard. The male ones are annoyingly loud..
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An edge of Helsinki, we are going to the train stop… and we see the phesant, second time this week, just walking around the neighbourhood like some local pigeon. Is it actually common in Finland? It is the first time I see it in ten years.
I don’t really know how common they are, it may depend on the area: if they have something to eat, they’ll be there, if not, you probably won’t see them.
A relative of mine lives in an area with sparse houses, and many of the people do some miniature scale farming, planting peas, beans, carrots, etc., and they regularly report pheasants eating their crops.
The males (such as the one you filmed) look really impressive.
Is this in itä-pakila?
I saw one of them right under my window today
My grandmother was in the paper a while back because she had 3 albino pheasants frequenting her backyard (among other normal ones)
Joq vitun fasaani
Free meal right there!
Mmmm pheasant breast . . .
Very common in Turku, once counted about 15-20 birds (male and female) on a 1-hour walk. Just on the north side of city center along the river.
Even the bird is over this weather. Wish it would get warmer.
Pheasants are common in places where
1) some have been released into the wild at some point in the past
2) people feed birds at winter
So a lot of cities and suburbs. They are not native here and won’t survive the winter in the wild. I’m not completely sure if some might make it in the far south, but at least in the rest of Finland this is the case.
I live in rural finland and we have like 10 female ones strolling our yard. The male ones are annoyingly loud..