In order to remember some meaningless sequence or composition of something, people have long been using mnemonic phrases or memory cards. So I decided to make a complete list of such phrases. So:
What mnemonic phrases do you know? Add more!
P.S. And finally, the old story about party mnemonics:
Even under Soviet power, in one of the military schools, during lectures on the History of the CPSU, a colonel-lecturer dictated a mnemonic rule for remembering the composition of the first Marxist group in Russia: “Plekhanov, Ignatov, Zasulich, Deitch, Axelrod - take the first letters of their surnames, add them up and for life remember what happened."
About the fatal hunt of the great traveler Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky, which served as the prologue to his premature and sudden death. And today I would like to dwell in more detail on the “culprit” of the death of the tireless explorer of Central Asia. So - pheasant.
Pheasant is a bird well known to all residents of southern Kazakhstan. Even those who have never met her in the wild have probably heard guttural screams, similar to the sounds immediately extracted by a frightened child from a flute or bassoon. Having whistled a couple of notes hoarsely, the performer immediately falls silent, as if afraid of his own courage. And he tries to quickly change his disposition, hastily running away from his own scream. And he runs masterfully - it is not for nothing that in terms of speed he is considered the unsurpassed champion of his family.
Perhaps it is precisely this caution that allows the bird to settle in such unforgivable proximity to its main enemy. In the city limits of Almaty, for example. Moreover, not only residents of city outskirts and cottage villages on mountain “counters” can easily hear the “singing” of a pheasant, but also visitors to the Botanical Garden and patients of large city sanatoriums that have retained their territories since Soviet times.
But in any case, the pheasant always remembers its safety. And he will always find such wilds for himself where the hand of a park designer has not reached. And it will pass where the thickest bushes have grown, where the tree shoots have formed the most impenetrable thickets. Impenetrable - for humans.
But the appearance of pheasants on the doorstep of their worst enemy is not the order of things, but rather a severe necessity, a behavioral risk due to the reduction of natural pheasant lands under the onslaught of urban trends. And also a consequence of the extraordinary adaptive plasticity of this relative of our domestic chickens.
The most ideal conditions for pheasants to live in the wildlife of Kazakhstan are tugai forests in the floodplains of rivers: along the Syrdarya, Chu, Ili and many small rivers of Semirechye: from the Aral to Alakol, in the reeds of the Northern Caspian Sea. These beautiful birds have thrived here for many millennia.
A meeting with a pheasant in the tugai forest is always unexpected for a complacent nature lover. Because, taken by surprise, the “best runner among chickens” suddenly remembers his ability to fly. And it flies out from right under your feet, making the terrible noise of an inept flyer, amplified by panicked screams.
“It takes off only in case of sudden danger and strong fear, and from high thickets it takes off in a so-called candle - almost vertically, and then switches to normal horizontal flight, alternating short-term flapping of its wings and gliding,” writes the patriarch of Kazakh ornithology, Anatoly Fedorovich Kovshar.
Missiles from the legendary S-400 complex take off in almost the same way. But that's where the similarities end. The missiles fly off into the distance to solve their defense targets, and the pheasant... The pheasant becomes an easy target for a not-so-sophisticated hunter. It is not for nothing that major clay pigeon shooting competitions held in Soviet times were called “Golden Pheasant”.
It is no coincidence that pheasants in the southern territories of modern Kazakhstan lived and did not bother until hunters acquired firearms. In the second half of the 19th century, the Syr Darya was still considered a full-flowing river, and the dense tugai forests and vast reed jungles along its banks were a veritable paradise for all living creatures, including countless wild boars, numerous tigers and countless (as it seemed to many) pheasants. This continued until the hunters, armed in a new way, began the methodical and massive extermination of the natural inhabitants of the Syrdarya.
Professionals and amateurs alike took on pheasants with particular passion. The fact is that pheasant meat was considered a valuable delicacy in fashionable restaurants in Moscow, St. Petersburg and European capitals. Therefore, the supply of pheasant meat has become a profitable business for hunters and buyers of Perovsky district. According to some data, in good seasons, up to 30 thousand carcasses of the noble bird arrived from the banks of the Syrdarya to the tables of the capital's gourmets.
It is clear that nature reacted to such an uncontrolled and reckless beating as usual - pheasants began to be found less and less often in the coastal forests of the Syrdarya. “Pheasant fishing provided significant income for local hunters, but the ruthless encouragement of Moscow hunters to destroy this useful bird led first to restrictive and then prohibitive measures on its export.” This is how the source of those years summed up the history of the fishery.
But while the pheasant was an ordinary representative of the fauna, it was pounded mercilessly. And those 16 birds that Przhevalsky shot on the banks of the Chu on his fateful day are a catch that may be unthinkable for modern hunters, but at that time not so impressive. Here is a quote from a hunting story by a contemporary of Przhevalsky, who shot pheasants in the lower reaches of the Syr Darya, near the Raim fortification: “Hunting was a real pleasure for us. About 15-20 versts from Raim, there was such a death of pheasants that on winter days the four of us killed 80 of them.” .
The success that pheasant meat had among fashionable restaurateurs and metropolitan gourmets is understandable. By and large, a pheasant is a chicken; they belong to the same order. However, the pheasant, although a chicken, has a claim to more.
The only representative of the pheasant family (from the order Gallinidae) in Kazakhstan is the common pheasant, kyrgauyl. Phasianus colchicus. Despite the spirited hunting, our hunters have still not managed to bring our own pheasant to the Red Book. And not the least role in this was played - no, not by public anxiety or state protection! - hypertrophied caution of this bird.
Every hunter wants to know where the pheasant is sitting. But not every pheasant wants to show the hunter the place where he sits.
Since childhood, we have all been familiar with mnemonic rules - ways to remember certain facts using phrases that seem to be completely unrelated to them. The most striking example is, of course, “ TO every ABOUT hunter AND wants Z nah, G de WITH goes F azan", a mnemonic for the arrangement of colors in the rainbow. In fact, mnemonics are also widely used to remember scientific facts and even medical procedures. Here is a set of such mnemonics (sometimes in English), guess what areas of knowledge they relate to?
There are not many people in the world who remember everything easily and never complain about their memory.
We have to remember things. We use pieces of paper, notebooks, mobile phones, computers, etc. But we can often use mnemonics to remember information.
Mnemonics or mnemonics- this is the art of memorization, a set of special techniques that facilitate memorization.
Special phrases or verses are used - memory sticks.
Below is a collection of memos collected on the Internet. Memos from various fields of knowledge: physics, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, Russian language.
Memos
The most famous memorabilia are about the colors of the rainbow. Let's start with them.
Rainbow
To remember the sequence of colors of the rainbow, there are mnemonic phrases in which the first letters of each word correspond to the first letters of the name of the color. Looking down the rainbow, from the outside to the inside of the arc:
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Light Blue, Blue, Purple.
The most famous memorization of this kind is the phrase:
Every Hunter Wants to Know Where the Pheasant Sits.
Or:
How Once Jacques the Bell-Ringer With His Head (City) Broke the Lantern.
And more modern Internet options :))
Every Designer Wants to Know Where to Download Photoshop!
Every Admin Wants to Know Where the System File is
Every Educated Zhzhist Knows Where to Watch Friendly Tape
And like this:
Cat Donkey Giraffe Bunny Blue Stitched Sweatshirts
Carlson Again Cheerfully Planned Something Nasty With Meatballs.
Every Educated Woman Eats Hot Raw Meatballs for Breakfast.
Autumn is creeping. The heat was eclipsed by the depth. Fuji is turning blue.(Haiku style)
As you can see, many new options have been invented)) 
In English:
Roygbiv is an acronym in English used to remember the primary colors of the light spectrum.
This is the name of a fictional character, each letter of whose name corresponds to the first letter of each color of the rainbow:
Roy G. Biv (R ed, O range Y ellow, G reen, B lue I ndigo, Violet)
Red - Red, Orange - Orange, Yellow - Yellow, Green - Green, Blue - Light Blue, Indigo - Indigo, Violet - Purple. 
For better memorization, English-speaking children learn the decoding of this acronym:
"Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain".
Translation: "Richard of York fought in vain."
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Mnemonic phrases are also known in astronomy, mathematics, biology...
Astronomy
To remember star classes: One Shaved Englishman Chews Dates Like Carrots.
In order from hot to cold(O, B, A, F, G, K, M).
English version: "O Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me".
When classes R, N and S were later added, the phrase became "O Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right Now... Smack."
Order of planets in the solar system-
We Know, Yulia’s Mom Got on Pills in the Morning!
(M-Mercury V-Venus W-Earth M-Mars S-Jupiter S-Saturn U-Uranus N-Neptune P-Pluto)
Or:
On a Frosty Evening Climbed Jung's Mast, Trying to See an Unfamiliar Port 
Masha Broom Chalked the Earth, A Yura Sat at the Spider Hole. Added: A-belt of Asteroids.
Biology
Periods-eras in the development of the living world of Earth
During their student years, some people memorized the order of geological periods by learning a phrase. "Every excellent student should smoke cigarettes; you, Yura, are small - drink tea at night".
Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleogene, Neogene, Quaternary periods.
Mathematics
Pi
There have always been a lot of memorizations for the number P.
If you try really hard, you can read it right away: Three, fourteen, fifteen, ninety-two and six. 3, 1415926
I know this and remember it perfectly - and many signs are unnecessary to me, in vain -
3, 14159265358
Or: What do I know about circles - 3,1416.
The number of letters in each word corresponds to the value of the number "Pi"
How swollen I am and want to get drunk as hell after these stupid reports that cause severe depression. 3, 14159265358979
Memo for the number "e" to the 15th decimal place (e = 2.718281828459045...)
Two commas, seven versts is not a detour (2,7) + two Leo Tolstoys(Year of birth of Tolstoy 1828
) + rectangular isosceles triangle (angles of an isosceles right triangle - 45, 90, 45). It's hard to remember, but it's possible...
Square root of two is equal to 1.4142135624... You can remember its value using the following memory stick:
I'm Katya, I'm a fool, but I found the root of two))
Product differentiation: d(UV) = U∙dV + V∙dU - “Strangle and into the water.”
Geometry
Bisector- this is a rat that runs around the corners and divides the corners in half.
Median- a monkey, she walks from side to side and divides the sides in half.
Height- This is a cat without a tail, which, like a crowbar, falls from the top to the side at a right angle.
Sine of angle defined as the ratio opposite to this corner leg to hypotenuse
Cosine- attitude adjacent leg to hypotenuse. 
To avoid confusion, you can use the following association:
Cosine
- JOINT-door attached(adjacent leg) to the jamb. Those. Cosine angle-ratio adjacent leg to the hypotenuse.
well and opposite gets sine.
Derivatives of sine and cosine are found according to the formulas:
(sin a)" = cos a And (cos a)" = -sin a.
You need to replace the sine with a cosine, the cosine with a sine, and take into account the sign. You can write it like this:
Blue joint andJamb - blue
Roman numerals
M s 1000
D we eat 500
C tips 100
L look 50
X good 10 V well-mannered 5 I to individuals
Or
We give 1000 500 Juicy100 Lemons 50 Enough 10 Vall 5 Ix
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Physics
average speed thermal motion of a particle v=sqrt(3kT/m) remembered as "three cats for meat"(m is the mass of the Brownian particle, v is its speed, k is Boltzmann’s constant, T is temperature, sqrt - square root).
Job:
Without strength and a path, I won’t be able to find work.
Newton's three laws:
1) if you don’t kick it, it won’t fly
2) as you kick, it will fly
3) as you kick, so will you get
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Chemistry
Indicator litmus red - indicates acid It's clear!
Indicator litmus blue - alkali here, don’t stand there gaping! Phenolphthalein ovated in alkalis crimson.
About sulfur
Sulfur, sulfur, letter S, 32 - specific gravity.
Sulfur burns in the air - We get anhydride.
Anhydride plus water - This will be an acid.
Ethyl alcohol formula
H2O is not our motto, ours is C2H5OH.
Organic chemistry
Let's remember, friend, both you and I, how they differ alcohols -
In them carbon And hydroxide, And every alcohol burns easily.
Smells nice aldehydes, But the group C(H)O will give them away.
IN ketones there is a group CO, But that’s also nothing...
We say calmly: fat. And by the way, he - ether,
He is from acids And glycerin.
This is the picture we have...
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Geography
OVAL- for memorizing the four largest rivers of Russia - Ob, Volga, Amur and Lena.
Cities of Holland
Amsterdam, Haarlem, Sardam
The Hague, Leiden, Rotterdam
Tributaries of the Danube:
"Sava, Drava and Morava,
Tisa, Drysa, Seret, Prut -
They all flow into the Danube!
Toponymy is an interesting topic!
In Petersburg, behind Vitebsky Station, there are a number of parallel streets - Ruzovskaya, Mozhaiskaya, Vereyskaya, Podolskaya, Serpukhovskaya, Bronnitskaya and Bataysky Lane. You can remember their order if you use the taxi driver code phrase: "Once ve maybe But ver it under crowbar gray dtsu bro dyachey ba Lerines?" or Once ve maybe But ver it empty words ba Lerines?
And here are some more phrases invented by taxi drivers:
“Squirrel Will Just Dry the Loaf”
(Bel urban, Bud Apest, Buh arrest, Etc azhskaya and WITH Ofiyskaya - Kupchina streets, south of St. Petersburg).
Fedya ate Sweetly, Thinking How to Give Dunya a Gift
- st. Fuchika, st. Bela Kuna, Slavy Ave., st. Dimitrova, Chestnut Alley (now Plovdivskaya), Danube Ave., st. Yaroslav Hasek, st. Oleko Dundich.
Avenues- Sciences, Northern, Lunacharsky, Enlightenment, Suzdal (in the north of St. Petersburg) gave rise to an unforgettable phrase: “On North e Moon A Pros That Suz"was".
In the same area:
Avenues Cultures, Rudnev, Artists, Yesenin, Engels - “Every Innovator Wants to Experiment Every Day”
.
Maybe someone will come up with a phrase for the streets of the Petrograd side crossing Bolshoy Prospekt?
(Ordinary, Plutalova, Barmaleeva, Podrezova, Podkovyrova, Polozova, Lenina. And - Lakhtinskaya, Gatchinskaya, Oranienbaumskaya, Kolpinskaya, Rybatskaya, Ropshinskaya...)
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Medical!!!
"Wake up, Sinister Undertaker, - the Tone of the Organism is raging, Depriving Your Own Language of an Immeasurable Share of Pessimism"- a phrase used by medical students to remember the sequence of cranial nerves (olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducens, facial, auditory, glossopharyngeal, vagus, accessory, sublingual).
AND
Like this fibula(fibula)
Move along the mandible(lower jaw)
So that the cerebrum can hear(brain)
how the cranium rings(scull).
Treatment of myocardial infarction(first aid) MONA or NONA
M- morphine N- IV drug
ABOUT- oxygen (oxygen)
N- nitroglycerin under the tongue
A- chew and swallow aspirin
Frequent cause of atrial fibrillation is three HP:
cardiosclerosis, thyrotoxicosis, mitral stenosis
For a cardiogram - overlay standard leads starting from the right hand Each Woman is Angrier Trait (red yellow green black)
Russian language
Memos from Certificates
THE PHENOMENON CALLS ON WEDNESDAYS, HAVING ACCEPTED AN AGREEMENT BY YEAR,
He Gave the Escort Experts the Application for the Airport.
The dancer and dancer love to pamper their children.
Set the dishes on the kitchen table and let the kittens dance.
The driver and I set off through the mud and, skidding for a long time in the mud,
We broke through to the communications department - the printer sent us blinds.
Vowel alternation fundamentally
If after the root there is A, At the root there will always be And.
Here's an example, remember: Did you wipe your feet? - Wipe!
Collect, wash, bully - Take a closer look: If the name is in the word Ira,
So the root has the letter I.
Eeyore Rule(for roots with alternating vowels): if after the root A, write I at the root. For example, shine.
Either, something, somehow, - That, after all don't forget to write with a hyphen,
As a preposition with the word from. (from behind, from under)
Put on and dress
ABOUT to do (who?) On hope On to do (what?) O hope
Socks and stockings
Short socks- word long: socks, Long stockings - short word: stocking.
The gypsy stood on his tiptoes and tutted at the chicken: Tsyts!” - words where “y” is written after “ts”
Here's an old rhyme for memorizing words where instead of "e" it was necessary to write "yat"":
B(e)ly, b(e)d, b(e)d b(e)s
Killed b(e)money in l(e)s,
L(e)shim by l(e)su he b(e)gal,
R(e)dkoy with hr(e)nom gave...
Literature
The word DAAMAN (da-am-an) indicates which syllable is stressed in three complex verse sizes: DActyl - 1st syllable, AM fi brachy - 2nd syllable, AN pestle- 3rd syllable.
Story
Henry VIII was married six times. The fate of his spouse is learned by English schoolchildren using the mnemonic phrase: “divorced - executed - died - divorced - executed - survived.”
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Other
Official languages of the UN
The United Nations Organization (UN) unites almost two hundred countries of the world. What language should you use to communicate during your work and publish official documents? Six languages were selected for this purpose. You can remember them using a simple memory stick:
AFRICA- English, French, Russian, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic.
Chess
Sequence of Latin letters on a chessboard(ABCDEFGH), (or the beginning of the Latin alphabet) - the phrase used is: “You will give the artist Bim a Compass, His Last Name is Zhe-Ash.”
Chess knight problem
You need to go around the entire board with your knight in such a way that you visit each square exactly once. Both the solution itself and remembering the answer is a rather difficult task. To remember the moves, grandmaster Vasily Panov composed a poem.
Each pair of words encrypts a chessboard field: the first word is a column, the second is a row. For example: Autumn is growing red - a1, With Valuable Gifts - c2
Autumn turns red with valuable gifts,
Another Life-Giving Day.
Chervonyat bread with yellow cords,
Crystal Waters Philosophical Canopy... 
Fully here:
http://www.mnemonica.ru/zapominalki/shakhmaty-zadacha-konya
Russian flag colors
To remember the colors of the flag, you can use the memory cards below.
Each word of the phrase begins with the same letter as the corresponding flag color:
White blue red.
Bullshit. Hippopotamus Ate Crocodile. The White Tsar defeated the Red Turks on the Blue Sea.
BoSYAK or BASIC - the order of the stripes of the Russian flag is determined by the consonants of these words.
And if from bottom to top: KGB. Red, blue, white
For those who change time
Time “In Spring - Forward, In Autumn - Back”
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And in conclusion, let’s see how foreigners remember Russian words:
English memos for Russian words
“I love you!” - “Yellow Blue Bus!”
"Serve Coffee" - "church"
"Horror Show" - "good"
"My On Ass" - "mayonnaise"
"Chess Knock" - "garlic"
"True Bar" - "pipe"
“Our device is Korea” - “get dressed quickly”
"PaleMan" - "dumpling"
The artists of the world famous “Circus of the Sun”, or Cirque du Soleil, had to learn Russian words during a tour in Moscow. This is how they did it. 
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Sources
http://www.mnemonica.ru/zapominalki
http://zapominalki.ru/
http://ctac.livejournal.com/6462.html
http://botinok.co.il/node/75231
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Having become a hunter and having hunted for about forty years, I have repeatedly been on pheasant hunts. All these were self-propelled or driven hunts, not particularly productive or interesting. But six years ago, my older friend, knowing that I had long wanted to get a dog for duck hunting, gave me a Drathaar puppy named Count for New Year’s. In the first year of hunting with the Count, I decided to go pheasant. And now the joy of hunting knew no bounds. It was a great, beautiful hunt! It has been six years since then that I have become an avid pheasant-keeper. During my first season with a dog, I caught more pheasants than in all the previous forty years, fortunately there were enough licenses.
It is difficult to find any other game bird in our country that would be as brightly and beautifully colored as the pheasant. The roosters' outfit is especially beautiful: their plumage contains golden, dark green, orange and purple colors. The rooster's glossy dark head has a tuft and fairly large red fields around the eyes. There is a ring of white feather on the neck. On the top of the back and neck there are greenish feathers with a blue tint against a general golden background. The back is golden-red, and each feather is decorated with a black triangular spot. The long tail matches the back, and at its base there are copper-red feathers with violet and purple tints, decorated with intricate patterns. Chickens, as a rule, are colored brownish-yellow with streaks.
The permanent habitat of pheasants is impenetrable thorn bushes, dense thickets of forest belts, tall dense grass, weeds, especially clogged with tumbleweeds, dense reeds, vineyards, fields sown with cereal crops. And these birds really love summer cottages. The main food for pheasants is insects, berries, weed and grain seeds. However, pheasants are not very picky about what they eat. In summer they prefer locusts, beetles, caterpillars, snails, and can peck both lizards and mice. In autumn, seeds and berries occupy the main place in their diet. Once, during a very harsh snowy winter, I saw pheasants hunting starlings. But the main thing for this bird is that there is always water nearby.
The pheasant flies very poorly - at most it can fly 300-400 meters, so it always tries to hide or escape (and pheasants run just fine). This explains the pheasant’s craving for “strong” places that are inconvenient for walking and shooting. However, the pheasant can also go out to feed in the almost bare steppe, but it is quite difficult to catch him there by surprise - at the first sign of danger, he quickly runs away into the saving thickets. So hunting this bird without a dog is quite difficult and cannot be as successful as hunting other game. For good pheasant hunting, you simply need a dog with a very fast search (otherwise the pheasants will run into the thicket without a shot), hardy and not very sensitive to thorny vegetation. Almost all breeds of cops are suitable for this, but preference should be given to wire-haired and long-haired dogs, which are more reliably protected from thorns. Drathaars are good in this regard.
Under a skillful dog, pheasants sink and hide, allowing the pointer to take a stance on them, and the hunter to approach and prepare for the shot. The pheasant takes off noisily and quickly, as if it were shooting itself out of the bushes. This is understandable - after all, he is in such a thicket where it is impossible to really flap his wings, and his jumps sometimes reach one and a half meters in height. With all its bright colors, the pheasant hides very skillfully. When approaching a dog standing on a stand, it is very difficult to see him even in low and sparse grass. When hunting pheasants, a dog is needed not only to lift the bird onto its wing, but also to find and serve a dead pheasant to the hunter or to catch a wounded animal. The fact is that a dead pheasant often falls into such thickets that it is simply impossible to find it yourself.
As for wounded animals, especially those with intact legs, it is generally unrealistic to catch them without a dog. Wounded pheasants, barely touching the ground, take flight with enormous speed and instantly disappear into the thickets. A wounded pheasant also has the ability to hide and not emit a smell. Sometimes hunters complain that they seem to have hit a pheasant, but the dog cannot find it. You just need to wait 10-15 minutes and again let the dog search for the wounded animal - just after this time the pheasant will “smell” again. For some reason, it is believed that the pheasant is quite tough on wounds, and that is why it produces a large number of wounded animals. But from my point of view, this is not so. This is the opinion of hunters who shoot pheasants with large shot - 5th or even 3rd. And those who hunt without a dog - because their pheasant flies out unexpectedly, and they shoot in a hurry. To avoid wounded animals, I shoot pheasants with small shot (usually number 7 or 8). Yes, and I shoot from under my Count’s stand. After 6 years of hunting together, I know for sure by his behavior and posture “who he is standing on” - whether it is a quail, a pheasant or a partridge - and in what direction the bird is exactly.
Golden bird, firebird, royal game - you name it, pheasant is called, and now hardly anyone will refuse the opportunity to hunt it. Although the pheasant appeared here on the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea relatively recently, in the mid-70s of the last century. Then, on the initiative and under the leadership of my father, an experienced hunter Pyotr Ilyich Grishchenko, the Kerch city organization of hunters, then still UOOR, purchased pheasants for breeding in hunting grounds in the “Cold Mountain” tract near Belogorsk. This unique pheasant nursery was created at the request of N.S. Khrushchev back in 1956. They released those pheasants, having previously created comfortable conditions for the birds, on Kerch land in the Maryevsky forest. From there, the pheasant gradually spread throughout the Kerch Peninsula, but the Maryevsky forest for a long time remained the main hunting ground for this beautiful bird. Some time ago, the Maryevsky forest was taken away from Kerch hunters, and with it pheasant hunting. It was then, four years ago, that the chairman of our hunters’ society, Vladimir Puzikov, began again to raise and release pheasants in our hunting grounds.
Every year, up to 3 thousand pheasant eggs are placed in incubators on our hunting farm. Not every egg produces a chick; many die during the feeding process. Due to their natural character, many pheasants die in the enclosure - they simply hit the nets and crossbars. Much is lost in the first days after release into the wild, since the aviary bird is poorly accustomed to looking for food and water on its own. Predators also contribute. In total, out of 3 thousand “potential pheasants,” only about one and a half survive to the start of the hunting season. Young pheasants are released in forest belts or reeds, where there is food supply and water. But even there, the hunting community is equipping artificial feeders and drinking bowls. The release of grown birds is carried out twice a year. The first time - at the beginning of summer and the second time - two weeks before the opening of pheasant hunting. Quite a significant portion of the birds survive the hunting season and the capricious Kerch winter, and in the spring they form pairs and bear offspring. Thus, there is a stable population on the peninsula, no longer different from a completely wild pheasant. Nevertheless, in winter, mandatory feeding of pheasants is carried out. Throughout all the forest belts of our hunting grounds there are feeders, which are constantly replenished with grain waste. Some of the grain is purchased, some is donated through sponsorship.
Raising pheasants is a rather expensive item for the budget of our hunting society. But the costs are repaid by the hunt. Some ignorant people say that for the money spent on hunting, you can buy any meat of your choice. Let me note that I personally do not go hunting for meat. I go hunting for the shot and the emotions, and, of course, in the end, for a beautiful trophy. And the very opening of pheasant hunting in our lands is a holiday; people come to us in Kerch to hunt this bird from all over Crimea and beyond. There are so many emotions, meetings and communications! Only for their sake can you breed this beautiful bird.
It is definitely worth saying that hunting for a semi-wild bird released into the grounds at the beginning of the season is practically no different from hunting for a wild pheasant. In the wild, juvenile pheasants quickly adapt, run wild and become quite cautious. Although immediately after the enclosure, young pheasants practically do not know how to fly and prefer to simply hide from the hunter. When hunting with a dog, these are easy prey at first. But, according to my observations, after a couple of weeks the pheasant becomes a full-fledged wild bird and is no different from one born in nature.
The younger the pheasants, the better they can withstand the dog's stance, the less space they run through and the faster they rise. Old males almost always flee by raising their tail vertically, and take off only when they are almost overtaken by a dog or when there is at least a small stream, ravine or other obstacle in their way. The pheasant almost always rises from the ground vertically, with a strong flapping of its wings: the males shout “ko-gok!” ko-gok!”, and the females with a weak cackle. In our hunting enterprise, hunting is not practiced when a pheasant is released a day before or on the day of hunting - this is considered unsporting (in practice, it turns out that it is still a poultry). In general, I like to shoot pheasants at the end of the season, when they have shed well and have a beautiful long tail. I love it when a rooster leads a dog - you watch and admire this fight between the cop and the bird. It is no coincidence that many, along with woodcock, consider pheasant, especially in strong areas, one of the most beautiful objects for hunting with a pointer.
And in conclusion, one of the incidents while hunting. My friend and I walked along the forest belt, I was on one side, he was on the other, and the Count was working in the forest belt itself. And he, naturally, did not see what was happening ahead. And there, in a gap in the forest belt, about a hundred to one hundred and fifty meters away, sat a flock of partridges. Seeing us from afar, the birds rose and flew away. When, after some time, we approached this place, my drathaar was clearly standing on the counter. I began to explain to him with laughter and irony that they were partridges, they flew away, but the smell remained. He did not respond to my call. Then I scratched the grass with my foot in the place where he was looking to show that it was empty. And, oh horror! From this small patch of grass two healthy roosters flew out. So much for pheasant hunting!
Russian hunting magazine, July 2015
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