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Ring-necked Pheasant

Phasianus colchicus

Lives in North Carolina all year and nests here. Found in 4 of 100 counties, across 11 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
4 of 100 counties
Habitats
11

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
4 of 100 counties
Habitats
11
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in North Carolina 11

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 11

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"
Year-roundCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old FieldLyell Carr, Black Mountain: a pasture and hayfield with a log barn, rail fence and grazing cow below the Black Mountains. Black Mountain, North Carolina (Lyell E. Carr)Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain", Lyell Carr, c. 1890-1912. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Freshwater marshes

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland SystemsRegional / representative. Shown: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia; representative pond ecosystem, a neighboring state.Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes, 1997. Public domain. Source record.

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural LakeshoreRegional / representative. Shown: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia; representative pond ecosystem, a neighboring state.Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes, 1997. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.

Depression ponds and limesinks

Shallow ponds in Coastal Plain depressions, such as limesinks and the ponds in some Carolina bays, that rise and fall with the seasons.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Disturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration

Freshwater tidal marshes

Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh

Wet meadows

Open, wet, grassy or sedgy ground that is not a bog.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems
Other habitats in its models (24)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in North Carolina. Those recorded in North Carolina first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (9)
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Year-round.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
Northeast (1)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Midwest (4)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Land cover and other classes (10)
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Year-round.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

  • Year-round: nests here, in 4 of 100 counties.

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 18

Plant genera in its diet records (9)
  • Zea Seeds. 13 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Avena 12 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Triticum 11 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Hordeum 7 diet records. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Eriogonum 3 diet records. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Arundinaria 2 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Glycine Seeds. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Secale 2 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Persicaria 1 diet record. 13 native plants in North Carolina

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in North Carolina, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 89

Plants 1314

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in North Carolina

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 112

Plants 132

All of coastal dunes and beaches in North Carolina

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 120

Plants 23

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources