When I was growing up we raised almost every type of animal and fowl worth raising , Then I raised a few Pheasants. Nothing comes close to the brainlessness and lack of will to live of a pheasant. Haha, had some get out one day and when my wife and I were trying to herd them back in one jumped in a water pail and let out a squawk as it took it's last breath before drowning , just like the force of a magnet 4 more jumped right in with him and did the same thing, Died instantly with a big gulp, Lost 5 birds in 5 seconds. I still swerve and honk the horn at an odd one here and there standing in the middle of the road on the way to town but that's about all I ever see of them, have 200 acres of CRP and they won't stay home. Predators mainly I think because we seem to hatch good numbers of Sharptails every year and every spring there are barely a breeding pair left. Every year about this time of the year we get a small group of Bald Eagles migrating through that spend a week or so , What they don't eat they scared away.