Quote Originally Posted by steve883 View Post
Fat ginger foreign chickens that can't fly properly. In the air or on the ground, they present no real challenge whatsoever. They were only introduced so some posh bloke who couldn't hit a woodcock would have something to shoot at.

Actually I have heard it may have been the Romans, but they come from India. Pheasant, rabbit, grey squirrels. Damned interlopers the lot of them.
They are indiginous to China,hence "Chinese ringnecked-pheasant"