Conservation
Framed Prints
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 call 1-302-875-2258 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 matboard & backing. 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.
Ring-necked pheasants are usually polygamous but
some males are monogamous. In the spring the ring-necked pheasant
it is common to see one male with several females. In Montana
cocks are capable of breeding by late February and hens can lay
eggs by late March. Winter weather, which often prevails through
March in much of Montana, may delay mating attempts until April.
Cocks defend breeding territories or "crowing
territories," and crow to attract hens. The boundaries of a
"crowing territory" may shift as the season progresses.
Cocks mate with any receptive hen that enters their territory. In
Montana crowing begins in late March, reaches a peak in May, and
then gradually subsides. Sporadic crowing may be heard through
July. Ring-necked pheasants are sexually active until about
August 1. The capable age at first reproduction of Ring-necked
pheasants are capable is the spring of the year after they hatch
.
Before nesting, ring-necked pheasants frequently lay eggs at
random or deposit them in "dump" nests (a nest where
eggs are layed but are not incubated and do not hatch). Several
hens may lay eggs in a single dump nest and then abandon them. As
many as 50 eggs have been found in a single dump nest. The
incidence of random egg laying and laying in dump nests appears
to increase as the local ring-necked pheasant population
increases .
After constructing a nest, the ring-necked pheasant hen lays 6 to
15 eggs, usually 10 to 12. The hen lays one egg per day until the
clutch is complete. Incubation begins after the entire clutch is
laid. Ring-necked pheasant hens often renest after a clutch is
destroyed. The hen will continue nesting attempts until she
successfully hatches a clutch, loses a clutch late in incubation,
or can no longer produce eggs that season.
The average number of eggs laid per clutch decreases by one or
more with each successive attempted renest. An average first
clutch of 10 eggs may be reduced by half in the third or fourth
renest attempt . The eggs are incubated by the hen for 23 to 25
days. Each ring-necked pheasant hen hatches only one brood during
the breeding season, but because of renesting attempts, broods of
many different ages can be seen throughout the season.
Ring-necked pheasants sometimes lay eggs in nests of other birds
such as gray partridge (Perdix perdix), ruffed grouse (Bonasa
umbellus), and blue-winged teal (Anas discors). Few of these eggs
hatch, and the chicks that do hatch probably do not survive long
.
