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title: "Ring-necked Pheasant"
description: "Phasianus colchicus — Uccelli. The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), ring-necked pheasant, or blue-headed pheasant, is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae)."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/ring-necked-pheasant
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Ring-necked Pheasant

> Phasianus colchicus — Uccelli. The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), ring-necked pheasant, or blue-headed pheasant, is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae).

- Scientific name: *Phasianus colchicus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prati e campi)
- iNaturalist observations: 74899
- Wikidata: [Q25432](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25432)
- iNaturalist taxon: [981](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/981)

## Names

- en: Ring-necked Pheasant
- de: Fasan
- es: Faisán asiático de collar
- fr: Faisan de Colchide
- nl: Gewone fazant
- pt: Faisão-comum
- pl: Bażant zwyczajny

## Countries with the most observations

GB (12816), US (12189), DE (5790), CA (3702), FR (3597), IT (3319), AT (2680), NL (1844), RU (1842), DK (1560), TW (1526), PL (1442)

## Summary

The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), ring-necked pheasant, or blue-headed pheasant, is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae). The genus name comes from Latin phasianus 'pheasant'. The species name colchicus is Latin for 'of Colchis' (modern day Georgia), a country on the Black Sea where pheasants became known to Europeans. Although Phasianus was previously thought to be closely related to the genus Gallus, the genus of junglefowl and domesticated chickens, recent studies show that they are in different subfamilies, having diverged over 20 million years ago.
It is native to Asia, where it is widespread…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_pheasant

## Photo

![Ring-necked Pheasant](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/ring-necked-pheasant/medium.jpg)

Photo: Stephen James McWilliam · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/32095371

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/ring-necked-pheasant?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).