Pheasants are one of the UK's most colourful birds. Introduced here by the Romans, they are now widespread. Pheasants are also well known throughout Western Europe, central Asia and China. They feed on a diet of seeds, berries and insects, preferring a habitat of wooded agricultural lowland which can provide both roosting sites and this wide variety of provisions. Males mate with more than one female, and females undertake all the duties of incubating and rearing chicks alone.

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