What’s in a Name?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
I’ve no idea whether she was as beautiful as the pheasant that still bears her name: I like to think that perhaps she was, but it seems unlikely, as the pheasant is a stunner. This striking pheasant was named after Sarah Countess Amherst, whose husband Lord Amherst sent the first specimen of the bird to London in 1828.
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