Male Pheasant 03

Male Pheasants "Lekking" at Newport Wetlands, RSPB Visitor Centre, Uskmouth, I understand that these birds were some of a number that were being bread for sale to shooters, so had their tails cropped to prevent them flying away. What the "entrepreneur" did not think of was that Pheasants can walk, and his whole stock walk away in the first week