Heart of the Hunt by John Green

Heart Of The Hunt

( SOLD OUT EDITION) We only have one left

Heart Of The Hunt
by John Green
16" by 19"
Framed Size 26" by 29"
ONLY ONE LEFT - THEN THEIR GONE

Conservation Framing
Each double mat may vary from print to print according to which frame you choose. If you would like to
have a particular color of mat just email sales@watsonswildlife.com to place your order. The best matching color is used for
each individual print and is not always the color shown here.

Each print is framed using Conservation Acid Free & Lignin Free, Alkaline pH buffered mat board & backing.
We use non glare glass, You may call us to request regular glass if you like, Other styles of glass are available.
In conservation framing, We use only Museum Quality materials and procedures that will have no adverse
effects on a piece of artwork and will protect the artwork from external damage.

The ring-necked pheasant is a native of eastern Asia. Plumage of the male is gaudy and brilliant. Prominent characteristics are a greenish-blue head, a white ring around the neck, a pale bluish rump patch, and a long, pointed tail barred with black. Coloration of the female is more drab with a mottled blend of browns with buff and dusky markings.

Pheasants prefer diversified agricultural and grain-producing regions. Pheasants require food, cover and a place with right conditions for reproduction to be abundant. A multitude of changes in our environment, ranging from more efficient farming to urban sprawl, are responsible for decreased habitat and consequently decreased pheasants.

Pheasant populations characteristically exhibit relatively high rates of reproduction and high mortality rates are. This will occur whether the population is hunted or not and involves the loss of both hens and roosters. Changes in pheasant numbers from year to year are habitat related. The problem of low population levels cannot be solved by stocking more pheasants, controlling predators or curtailing hunting. It can only be solved through providing more habitat.

All wildlife go through what is commonly termed an annual cycle of abundance. Beginning with the breeding season, populations are at their lowest annual level. With the hatching of the new crop of pheasant chicks, the population builds. Pheasants normally begin hatching in late May. The highest pheasant population occurs each year after most of the hatch is complete. Mortality begins to thin the population immediately. By the time the hunting season arrives, at least 40 percent of the new chicks will already be lost. During late summer the amount of cover and food available for pheasants is at its highest level. As fall progresses into winter, cover and food are drastically reduced. The amount of cover and food in late winter is but a fraction of that a few months earlier. Reduced pheasant abundance is closely related to this reduction in habitat.

The ring-neck is totally dependent upon the farmer for existence. Pheasants are a product of the farm. The most fertile, productive farmland has the best potential for producing an abundance of pheasants. Pheasant production is dependent upon the right kinds and quantities of vegetation used for food, nesting, roosting, escape cover, winter habitat and other life processes. The more intensively and efficiently an area is farmed, the less desirable it becomes for pheasants. At least 30 percent of the land in good pheasant habitat must be uncultivated and  5-15 percent of the area must be in permanent protective cover like cattail marshes or shrubby bottom lands. Permanent vegetation is needed along fencelines, ditches and roadways to provide safe travel lanes between feeding areas and protective cover.

Internet Prices & Availability
Because the art market is constantly in a state of instability, with new releases coming out and other ones selling out,  We will try to this site as up to date as  possible on  price changes and when art sells out. Prices and availability of artwork do change overnight sometimes and very unexpectedly, so there is no way to guarantee that the piece you ordered on our web site is available. We will always contact you and refund you immediately if there is a problem. There is a 20% Restocking Fee.

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