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Black Retriever with Pheasant, 1831
Painting by Dean Wolstenholme the Elder: This dog is a good example of a purpose-bred mongrel retriever that lies at the base of every one of these breeds we call “retrievers” today. It could have had...
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Hunting ruffed grouse with a golden retriever and a bow
Source. This is how Medieval poachers would hunt game birds. They would have their spaniels or just good random-bred dogs force the birds to take refuge in the trees. Then, they’d pick them off with...
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The Horton Flat-coats
These dogs belonged to a Mr. L. Allen Shuter (no pun intended). These are some very famous flat-coated retrievers, and they also appear in some of the early golden retriever pedigrees. The flat-coats...
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Hunting pheasants with a pointing golden retriever
It’s from an episode of a show called Bird Dogs Forever. Pointing golden retrievers aren’t supposed to exist, but there are breeders who produce pointing Labradors. There is a lot of debate about...
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Hunting peafowl in New Zealand with Cesky fousek
Source. Cesky fousek are also called the Bohemian wire-haired pointing griffon. Bohemia is one of the traditional lands of the Czechs. It is where Prague is located. The other two are Moravia and the...
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Bear kills and eats a peacock at the Philadelphia Zoo
It’s not often you get to see predation at the zoo, but here it is! Source. This is an Asiatic black bear, which actually might catch a peacock in the wild. This was not planned. I don’t think any zoo...
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Melanistic ring-necked or common pheasant
This bird is a melanistic common or ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus). This is a hen pheasant. She’s much darker brown and has more black on her plumage than a typical hen of this species....
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California quail/bobwhite quail hybrid
This is a hybrid between a spot-bellied bobwhite (Colinus leucopogon) and a California quail (Callipepla californica). The spot-bellied bobwhite is a close relative of the northern bobwhite (Colinus...
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Wild turkey poo
I came across this rather large bit of wild turkey poop. It was about two inches across at the widest part, and it was curled at the end. That means that it was left by a rather large tom. My grandpa...
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The strange hybrid between a pheasant and a “blue grouse”
Dusky grouse hen. Hybridization between animal species is a topic that has long fascinated me. I’ve been looking at various animal hybrids over the years, and some are really quite shocking. Marine...
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