Northern pheasant - Northern pheasant

Japanese: キタキジ - きたきじ
Northern pheasant - Northern pheasant

...However, some scholars distinguish between Japanese and continental pheasants as separate species. Japanese pheasants are divided into four subspecies: Northern pheasant (northern Honshu, Sado), Tokai pheasant (central and western Honshu, Shikoku), Kyushu pheasant (southern Honshu, Kyushu, Goto Islands), and Shima pheasant (part of Honshu, Yakushima, Tanegashima, Izu Islands). However, because pheasants are game birds, each prefecture has artificially bred and released them every year, resulting in the various subspecies being mixed together in various places, and the differences between the subspecies are no longer clear.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "northern pheasant" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかし,学者によっては日本のものと大陸のものを別種として区別することもある。日本産のキジは,キタキジ(本州北部,佐渡),トウカイキジ(本州中部および西部,四国),キュウシュウキジ(本州南部,九州,五島列島),シマキジ(本州の一部,屋久島,種子島,伊豆諸島)の4亜種に分けられる。しかし,キジは狩猟鳥であるため,各都道府県によって人工増殖および放鳥が毎年行われてきた結果,各亜種が各地で入りまじり,現在,各亜種間の差異は明りょうではなくなっている。…

※「キタキジ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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