Ring-necked (Japanese Green) Pheasants recorded per party
hr on the Volcano Christmas Count, Hawai'i,
1972-2007 (see Count
Page), showing declines in
populations during the 1970s-1990s and no records since 1995. 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/