Japanese Green Pheasants (a subspecies of Ring-necked
Pheasant) recorded per party hr on the Volcano
Christmas Count, Hawai'i, 1972-2007 (see Count
Page), showing declines in populations
during the 1970s-1990s. This subspecies may be extirpated in its pure form
from the Hawai'i I and State of Hawaii. Graphs of Christmas Count data
developed as part of The Birds of the Hawaiian Islands: Occurrence, History, Distribution, and
Status by Robert L. Pyle and Peter Pyle http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/birds/rlp-monograph/2009/