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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Redshank3" data-source="post: 3405449" data-attributes="member: 89786">I would count some but depends partly on my feel for the sighting and individual not simply inclusion or not on a national/regional list. I will only count if is on a national/regional list as self-sustaining and bird I have seen seems wild.To explain; many UK pheasant and red-legged partridge for example are obviously reared and released- only marginally different to chickens in my view. I don't consider the partridge clustering round feeders in a field wild. I have however seen tiny pheasant chicks following their mother at Pagham Harbour- I am happy these are genuinely part of the 'wild' population but these are only pheasants I have seen in UK that I feel completely comfortable ticking.</blockquote>