Pheasant is a Colchian bird and is spread around the globe from the Western Georgia (Colchis) - Its homeland is areas of the River Phasis.
Pheasant ( Lat. common pheasant Phasianus ) - thick (body length of 85 cm, weight - up to 2 kg) It includes 2 species: the green pheasant (Phasianus vesicolor), which lives in Japan, and the common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), which spreads from the Caucasus to the Volga Delta, through Central Asia to southeastern China, and to the Primorye. Pheasant has been known in Georgia since ancient times.
According to Greek pagan religion, the pheasant was taken by the Argonauts from Colchis and then spread throughout Europe.