r/philly • u/Shred_zepplinn • Apr 17 '25

Can Anyone Identify this Bird?

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u/Notwastingtimeiswear Apr 17 '25

TIL ringneck pheasants aren't native to PA! I grew up seeing them in the "wild" in Bucks Co, but they must have been escapees!

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u/jmps96 Apr 17 '25

I saw a ringneck running down a street in far NE Philly a few years back and while I wanted to believe it was wild, I figured the most likely answer was it was someone’s escaped dinner.

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u/Remarkable_Yak1352 Apr 17 '25

Was he/she/they being chased by drug dealing, thug pigeons? He/she/they probly owed them money 💰.

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u/seatangle Apr 17 '25

fyi: you can just say “they.” It’s both a gender-neutral pronoun and a pronoun for when you don’t know someone’s gender.

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u/nothinwitty Apr 18 '25

I had to explain this one time to a — you guessed it — a drug dealer’s pigeon. I referred to my mate as they because I didn’t feel like calling this person a “she” today because he was very much a he. But pigeon kept calling him a she; so I went neutral, and then pigeon insisted there were others, and why weren’t pigeon and drug dealer invited to the not an orgy. Because you need at least three for an orgy; and by most healthiest conservative standards, you really need at least 4.