Phasianus colchicus is a native species of Asia and SE parts of Europe. Was known to ancient Europeans as being from Colchis (kingdom of present-day Georgia), hence the Latin name.

Raised on farms and introduced for hunting since ancient Rome, the species is highly hybridized today. The last "authentic" indigenous individuals in Europe lived in 2009 in a number of approx. 200 specimens in the Kotza-Orman forest in the Nestos river delta, Greece.

-----

Last shot of the day, just before the sun got fully below the horizon. Since already at ISO 3200, took a long burst of 1/60s images in the hope I'll get 1-2 sharp in the bunch. I dit, but still, one leg is blurred to oblivion... :-)

Tags:   pheasant Phasianus colchicus birds wildlife OM-1 Mark 2 OM System M.Zuiko 150-400mm habitat

© All Rights Reserved

© All Rights Reserved

Tags:   Eurasian hoopoe Upupa epops OM System OM-1 Mark II Olympus 300mm F4 wildlife bird Romania

© All Rights Reserved

Great cormoran (Phalacrocorax carbo) with an abstract background (out of focus tree branches actually)

Tags:   Great cormoran Phalacrocorax carbo OM System OM-1 Mark II M.Zuiko 300mm F4.0 BIF birds abstract ambiental habitat

© All Rights Reserved

Male northern shoveler flying over the tree line of Bistra Forest, near Timisoara

Tags:   northern shovel rațâ lingurar spatula clypeata BIF wildlife Romania OM System OM-1 Mark II Panasonic Leica DG Elmarit 200mm F2.8 duck ambiental birding bird in flight

© All Rights Reserved