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        "name": "Common Pheasant",
        "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Common Pheasant, assess its condition and ecological circumstances, and determine which observations or interventions are justified.",
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                "id": "THING-Q25432",
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                "name": "Common Pheasant",
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            "model": {
                "registry_id": "vr.tr.common-pheasant",
                "name": "Common Pheasant",
                "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Common Pheasant, assess its condition and ecological circumstances, and determine which observations or interventions are justified.",
                "definition": "The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus Linnaeus, 1758) is a large, sexually dimorphic Palearctic galliform (Phasianidae) native from the Caucasus across Central Asia to China, comprising many subspecies separated mainly by male plumage, and the source of the hybrid ring-necked game-farm stocks now widely released or naturalised in Europe, North America, and New Zealand.",
                "scope_statement": "This model owns the recognition, individual state, life-stage dependencies and action-relevant relationships of Common Pheasant under vr.tr.common-pheasant in PHY / PHY.LIV, provisionally interpreted as Phasianus colchicus; population, habitat and management systems are linked contexts.",
                "in_scope": [
                    "Species identification with evidence, confidence and unresolved alternatives",
                    "Sex, life stage, plumage variation and individual recognition",
                    "Locomotion, feeding, body condition and observable impairment",
                    "Breeding activity, nest association and dependent young",
                    "Habitat use, encounter history and wild, captive or released provenance",
                    "Circumstances governing observation, handling, care or management"
                ],
                "out_of_scope": [
                    "Other pheasant species and the wider Phasianidae classification",
                    "Population abundance, demographic trends and conservation assessments",
                    "Farmland, woodland-edge and enclosure design as managed places",
                    "Gamebird enterprises, release programmes and shooting events",
                    "Veterinary disease models, diagnostic protocols and treatments",
                    "Carcasses, meat, feathers and other derived products as separate things"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "For a fully feathered bird, check the long, tapering tail together with a small head, long neck and substantial ground-bird body; retain partridge and grouse alternatives when the tail is obscured or incomplete. [Cornell identification](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ring-necked_Pheasant/id)",
                    "For an adult male, seek the combined green head, red facial skin and patterned chestnut or golden-brown body; colour alone is insufficient for an atypical bird. [RSPB identification](https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/pheasant)",
                    "For a female, test brown-and-black mottling together with the long pointed tail; brown plumage by itself does not resolve confusion with other female gamebirds. [Cornell identification](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ring-necked_Pheasant/id)",
                    "For a calling male, compare the recorded crow and associated brief wing-drumming sequence with a verified reference; treat a sound without a located bird as supporting evidence. [Cornell identification](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ring-necked_Pheasant/id)"
                ],
                "characteristics": [
                    {
                        "name": "Identification assessment",
                        "kind": "category",
                        "unit_or_values": "supported Common Pheasant identification | provisional | unresolved pheasant | rejected; evidence and taxonomic reference required",
                        "why_it_matters": "Controls whether species-specific interpretations and actions apply."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Sex assessment",
                        "kind": "category",
                        "unit_or_values": "male | female | undetermined; method and confidence",
                        "why_it_matters": "Changes the interpretation of plumage and breeding behaviour."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Life stage",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "embryonic | chick | juvenile | adult | undetermined",
                        "why_it_matters": "Determines which recognition features and dependency expectations are applicable."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Plumage and tail condition",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "observed colours and patterns; neck-ring appearance; tail completeness; moult evidence; atypical features",
                        "why_it_matters": "Separates identification uncertainty from feather loss or changing plumage."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Body mass",
                        "kind": "measurement",
                        "unit_or_values": "g; date, method and life-stage context",
                        "why_it_matters": "Supports condition monitoring when comparable measurements are available."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Locomotor performance",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "walking, running and spontaneous flight observations; impairment present | absent in observation | unassessed",
                        "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes observed capability from assumptions based on remaining on the ground."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Feeding activity",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "food sought, food taken, swallowing observed, observation duration, access constraints",
                        "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of feeding opportunity and possible impairment."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Breeding association",
                        "kind": "relation",
                        "unit_or_values": "display territory | mate association | nest | brood; observed role and confidence",
                        "why_it_matters": "Identifies dependencies that an intervention could disrupt."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Origin and management history",
                        "kind": "relation",
                        "unit_or_values": "linked hatch, holding, release or recovery records; unknown permitted",
                        "why_it_matters": "Prevents a free-ranging sighting from being treated as proof of wild origin."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Current living context",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "free-ranging | enclosed | temporarily held | unknown",
                        "why_it_matters": "Separates present circumstances from historical origin."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Encounter location",
                        "kind": "relation",
                        "unit_or_values": "place, timestamp, positional uncertainty and observed habitat use",
                        "why_it_matters": "Connects condition and proposed actions to the actual encounter."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Action eligibility",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "per proposed action: supported | prohibited | unresolved; jurisdiction, date and authority reference",
                        "why_it_matters": "Prevents gamebird status or presumed ownership from becoming blanket permission."
                    }
                ],
                "affordances": [
                    "Identify and document a pheasant through photographs, recordings and field observations, retaining unresolved alternatives.",
                    "Reobserve a bird and compare condition or behaviour using individual marks and encounter uncertainty.",
                    "Assess use of feeding, shelter and breeding sites and refer site changes to the responsible habitat model.",
                    "Evaluate whether an apparently isolated chick or impaired adult warrants specialist assessment.",
                    "Support authorised capture, examination, marking or care through an appropriate specialist workflow.",
                    "Evaluate proposed release, relocation or harvest against verified provenance, local authority and the bird's current state."
                ]
            },
            "sources": [
                {
                    "id": "madge-mcgowan-2002",
                    "title": "Pheasants, Partridges and Grouse: A Guide to the Pheasants, Partridges, Quails, Grouse, Guineafowl, Buttonquails and Sandgrouse of the World",
                    "url": "",
                    "what_it_supports": "Species limits, subspecies groups, field characters, measurements, and confusion species across Phasianus."
                },
                {
                    "id": "iucn-birdlife-colchicus",
                    "title": "Phasianus colchicus (Common Pheasant) - IUCN Red List assessment",
                    "url": "",
                    "what_it_supports": "Global conservation status (Least Concern), native versus introduced range, and principal threats."
                },
                {
                    "id": "cornell-bow-rinphe",
                    "title": "Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) species account, Birds of the World",
                    "url": "",
                    "what_it_supports": "Natural history, biometrics, clutch size, introduced North American populations, and English naming as ring-necked pheasant."
                },
                {
                    "id": "ioc-wbl",
                    "title": "IOC World Bird List - Phasianus colchicus (Common Pheasant)",
                    "url": "",
                    "what_it_supports": "Current English and scientific names and the split of Japanese green pheasant (P. versicolor) as a neighbour species."
                },
                {
                    "id": "linnaeus-1758",
                    "title": "Systema Naturae, 10th edition",
                    "url": "",
                    "what_it_supports": "Original Linnean description and the type locality tradition for P. colchicus."
                }
            ],
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "pheasant-recognition",
                        "name": "Pheasant Recognition",
                        "description": "Establish whether the encounter belongs to Common Pheasant and how confidently the individual can be described.",
                        "rationale": "Sex, age and atypical appearance can make a single plumage cue misleading.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "species-assignment",
                                "name": "Species Assignment",
                                "description": "Connect the registry concept to an evidence-supported biological identification.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "taxonomic-anchor",
                                        "name": "Taxonomic Anchor",
                                        "description": "Use Phasianus colchicus as the provisional species anchor, recording the adopted authority and version. [RSPB species account](https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/pheasant)",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which taxonomic authority and version define Phasianus colchicus for this identification?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "id": "taxonomic-anchor-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Does the evidence support Common Pheasant, or should the record remain an unresolved pheasant identification?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "taxonomic-anchor-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "appearance-and-individuality",
                                "name": "Appearance and Individuality",
                                "description": "Interpret observed features in their sex, age and individual context.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "recognition-evidence",
                                        "name": "Recognition Evidence",
                                        "description": "Record visible head, body and tail features, their visibility and alternative explanations; distinguish species identification from recognition of the same individual.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which observed features support the sex and life-stage assessment, and which are obscured?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "recognition-evidence-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Could incomplete tail growth, feather loss or atypical plumage explain the apparent mismatch?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "recognition-evidence-q02"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What ring, marking or encounter evidence supports treating two sightings as the same bird?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "recognition-evidence-q03"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "origin-and-living-context",
                        "name": "Origin and Living Context",
                        "description": "Separate where a pheasant came from, where it lives now and who has documented responsibility for it.",
                        "rationale": "Introductions and gamebird releases make location alone an unreliable account of origin. [RSPB species account](https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/pheasant)",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "hatch-and-release-history",
                                "name": "Hatch and Release History",
                                "description": "Preserve documentary evidence of rearing, captivity and release.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "origin-evidence",
                                        "name": "Origin Evidence",
                                        "description": "Represent origin as an evidence-backed history, allowing unknown origin and uncertain matches to release records.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is there a hatch, breeder, ring or release record that can be matched to this individual?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "origin-evidence-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is captive-reared or wild-hatched origin documented, inferred or unknown?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "origin-evidence-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "present-context",
                                "name": "Present Context",
                                "description": "Describe current freedom of movement and relationships to holding sites or local populations.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "residence-and-responsibility",
                                        "name": "Residence and Responsibility",
                                        "description": "Keep enclosure status, local occurrence and documented responsibility separate from ancestry and inferred ownership.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the bird currently enclosed, temporarily held or free-ranging, and when was that established?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "residence-and-responsibility-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which records support a relationship to a keeper, release site or local population?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "residence-and-responsibility-q02"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What remains unresolved about responsibility before a handling or transfer decision?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "residence-and-responsibility-q03"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "condition-and-ground-living",
                        "name": "Condition and Ground Living",
                        "description": "Assess functional condition without confusing ordinary ground activity with incapacity.",
                        "rationale": "Pheasants commonly walk or run and may fly when disturbed; failure to observe flight is insufficient evidence of injury. [Cornell identification](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ring-necked_Pheasant/id)",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "movement-and-injury",
                                "name": "Movement and Injury",
                                "description": "Record spontaneous locomotion and observable physical abnormalities.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "functional-mobility",
                                        "name": "Functional Mobility",
                                        "description": "Describe gait, weight-bearing, wing carriage and any spontaneous flight, preserving what was not assessed.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Does the bird bear weight symmetrically and move without a visible limp or persistent wing droop?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "functional-mobility-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Was flight observed spontaneously, or is flight capability simply unknown?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "functional-mobility-q02"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which observed impairment warrants referral to a qualified wildlife or veterinary service?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "functional-mobility-q03"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "feeding-and-condition",
                                "name": "Feeding and Condition",
                                "description": "Relate feeding observations to measured condition and access to resources.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "feeding-function",
                                        "name": "Feeding Function",
                                        "description": "Record actual food intake and condition evidence without treating a brief absence of feeding as failure to feed.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What food was taken and swallowed, over what observation period?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "feeding-function-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Are comparable mass or professionally assessed body-condition observations available?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "feeding-function-q02"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Does the evidence indicate poor access, possible impairment or insufficient observation?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "feeding-function-q03"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "breeding-and-dependent-young",
                        "name": "Breeding and Dependent Young",
                        "description": "Represent breeding evidence and dependencies relevant to disturbance or intervention.",
                        "rationale": "Ground nests and mobile chicks require different interpretations of presence, absence and vulnerability. [Cornell life history](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ring-necked_Pheasant/lifehistory)",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "breeding-evidence",
                                "name": "Breeding Evidence",
                                "description": "Distinguish display, mating association and confirmed nesting.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "breeding-stage",
                                        "name": "Breeding Stage",
                                        "description": "Record observed breeding behaviour without converting male display or proximity between birds into proof of an active nest.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What evidence supports display, courtship, laying, incubation or brood attendance?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "breeding-stage-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the nest association directly observed or inferred from nearby pheasant activity?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "breeding-stage-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "brood-dependency",
                                "name": "Brood Dependency",
                                "description": "Track young in relation to an attending female and distinguish mobility from independence.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "chick-attendance",
                                        "name": "Chick Attendance",
                                        "description": "Chicks leave the nest and feed themselves while following the female; being mobile does not establish independence. [Cornell life history](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ring-necked_Pheasant/lifehistory)",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How many chicks and attending adults were observed, with what visibility and observation duration?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "chick-attendance-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What evidence distinguishes temporary separation from loss of attendance?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "chick-attendance-q02"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Could the proposed approach, capture or movement separate the brood?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "chick-attendance-q03"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "habitat-use-and-exposure",
                        "name": "Habitat Use and Exposure",
                        "description": "Connect the individual to the places and immediate hazards shaping its state.",
                        "rationale": "Feeding areas, concealment and nesting cover can have different values and risks for the same pheasant.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "functional-habitat",
                                "name": "Functional Habitat",
                                "description": "Record what the bird actually does at a site.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "resource-use",
                                        "name": "Resource Use",
                                        "description": "Separate observed feeding, sheltering, roosting and nesting use from suitability inferred from vegetation.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which site functions are directly observed for this bird, and at what times?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "resource-use-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which resources or cover are accessible, and which are separated by barriers?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "resource-use-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "immediate-hazards",
                                "name": "Immediate Hazards",
                                "description": "Describe the bird's exposure to a specific impending or ongoing disturbance.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "road-and-machinery-exposure",
                                        "name": "Road and Machinery Exposure",
                                        "description": "Road traffic and agricultural machinery are documented pheasant hazards; record actual proximity and activity before recommending a response. [Cornell life history](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ring-necked_Pheasant/lifehistory)",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the bird, associated nest or brood within an active traffic or machinery path?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "road-and-machinery-exposure-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What evidence establishes the timing and severity of the exposure?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "road-and-machinery-exposure-q02"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which site-level adjustment could reduce exposure without moving the bird?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "road-and-machinery-exposure-q03"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "pheasant-intervention-decisions",
                        "name": "Pheasant Intervention Decisions",
                        "description": "Determine whether a specific proposed interaction is justified, authorised and assessable.",
                        "rationale": "Observation, rehabilitation, game management and release involve different purposes and cannot share an assumed permission.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "authority-and-purpose",
                                "name": "Authority and Purpose",
                                "description": "Bind each proposed action to its reason and applicable external rules.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "action-specific-authority",
                                        "name": "Action-Specific Authority",
                                        "description": "Require current, location-specific evidence for decisions about capture, keeping, relocation, release or harvest; this draft supplies no jurisdictional permission.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What precise action is proposed, for what purpose and at which location and date?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "action-specific-authority-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which current authority or documented permission governs that action?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "action-specific-authority-q02"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Does unresolved identity, origin or responsibility prevent the decision from being made?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "action-specific-authority-q03"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "intervention-readiness",
                                "name": "Intervention Readiness",
                                "description": "Connect a permitted action to the bird's condition, dependencies and subsequent assessment.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "handling-and-release-readiness",
                                        "name": "Handling and Release Readiness",
                                        "description": "Record the specialist assessment, receiving context and observable outcome criteria needed for a proposed handling, care or release workflow.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What assessment supports proceeding given the bird's mobility, feeding state and brood relationships?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "handling-and-release-readiness-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "For transfer or release, which receiving-site and health requirements have been verified?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "handling-and-release-readiness-q02"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What follow-up observations would establish success or trigger reassessment?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "handling-and-release-readiness-q03"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment",
                        "name": "Evidence and external alignment",
                        "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.",
                        "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "reported-evidence",
                                "name": "Reported evidence",
                                "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-kinds",
                                        "name": "Kinds and varieties",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "Colchian / black-necked pheasant (P. c. colchicus group; no white collar)",
                                            "Chinese ring-necked pheasant (P. c. torquatus group; white neck-ring)",
                                            "Mongolian pheasant (P. c. mongolicus)",
                                            "Korean pheasant (P. c. karpowi)",
                                            "Pallas's / Manchurian pheasant (P. c. pallasi)",
                                            "Commercial ring-necked hybrid (European and North American hunting-release stock)",
                                            "Melanistic mutant (dark game-farm morph)",
                                            "White / leucistic ornamental morph"
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-kinds-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Common Pheasant this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-identifiers",
                                        "name": "Identifiers and schemes",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "Linnean binomen",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "Phasianus colchicus Linnaeus, 1758",
                                                "note": "Type species of Phasianus; authority and year are stable across major checklists."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "Wikidata",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "Q25432",
                                                "note": "Item for the common pheasant as a taxon."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "ITIS TSN",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "175905",
                                                "note": "Integrated Taxonomic Information System taxonomic serial number."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "9054",
                                                "note": "Taxon ID used in sequence databases."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "eBird / Clements species code",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "rinphe",
                                                "note": "North American English name on this checklist is Ring-necked Pheasant."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "IOC English name",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "Common Pheasant",
                                                "note": "Contrasts with Green Pheasant for P. versicolor."
                                            }
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Common Pheasant this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation",
                                        "name": "Standards and regulation",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "IUCN Red List assessment for Phasianus colchicus, compiled by BirdLife International (currently Least Concern globally).",
                                            "EU Birds Directive 2009/147/EC, Annex II - listed as a huntable species where national law allows.",
                                            "United Kingdom Game Act 1831 and Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 - gamebird status, close seasons, and related taking rules.",
                                            "Defra (UK) Code of Practice for the Welfare of Gamebirds Reared for Sporting Purposes - rearing, transport, and release of farmed pheasants.",
                                            "WOAH (OIE) Terrestrial Animal Health Code - farmed pheasants treated as poultry for notifiable diseases such as highly pathogenic avian influenza.",
                                            "Subnational hunting codes (US state wildlife agencies, especially the Midwest; equivalent provincial/national game laws elsewhere) set seasons, sex rules, and bag limits."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Common Pheasant this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-real-world-use",
                                        "name": "Real-world use",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "Released in large numbers for driven and walked-up shooting in Britain, Ireland, and parts of continental Europe.",
                                            "Upland gamebird hunted on farmland and prairie in the northern United States and southern Canada (there called ring-necked pheasant).",
                                            "Reared on game farms for release and, to a lesser extent, slaughtered for meat and sold as pheasant.",
                                            "Kept as an ornamental aviary bird, including white and melanistic colour morphs.",
                                            "State bird of South Dakota; a familiar countryside bird and sporting quarry rather than a conservation flagship in most of its introduced range."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Common Pheasant this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-measurements",
                                        "name": "Typical measurements",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Adult male body mass",
                                                "typical_range": "0.9-1.5",
                                                "unit": "kg"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Adult female body mass",
                                                "typical_range": "0.7-1.1",
                                                "unit": "kg"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Adult male total length including tail",
                                                "typical_range": "60-89",
                                                "unit": "cm"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Adult female total length",
                                                "typical_range": "50-63",
                                                "unit": "cm"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Adult male tail length",
                                                "typical_range": "35-54",
                                                "unit": "cm"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Wingspan",
                                                "typical_range": "70-90",
                                                "unit": "cm"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Clutch size",
                                                "typical_range": "8-15",
                                                "unit": "eggs"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Typical wild lifespan",
                                                "typical_range": "1-3 (rarely >10)",
                                                "unit": "years"
                                            }
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-measurements-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Common Pheasant this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards",
                                        "name": "Failure modes and hazards",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "Very high first-year mortality of reared, released birds from predation and weak anti-predator behaviour.",
                                            "Vehicle collision (roadkill) on farmland roads.",
                                            "Highly pathogenic avian influenza and other poultry pathogens in intensive rearing sheds.",
                                            "Lead-shot ingestion and other hunting-related injury.",
                                            "Loss of nesting cover (hedgerows, grassland, wetland edge) collapsing wild-breeding populations even where releases continue.",
                                            "Genetic swamping of named native subspecies by repeated release of hybrid game-farm stock.",
                                            "In some introduced or island settings, additional predation or disturbance pressure on native ground fauna."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Common Pheasant this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-regional-variation",
                                        "name": "Regional variation",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "In North American English the established bird is almost always called ring-necked pheasant; in British and IOC usage the species name is common pheasant, and 'pheasant' unqualified usually means this species.",
                                            "Native-range practice treats many subspecies as locally distinct (black-necked Colchian birds versus collared Chinese and Mongolian forms); European and American hunting stocks are mixed hybrids that no longer match a single wild subspecies.",
                                            "UK and Irish encounter is dominated by annual game-farm release and driven shooting; US prairie management more often targets a self-sustaining or habitat-limited wild population.",
                                            "Japan's national bird is the related green pheasant (P. versicolor), not P. colchicus; common pheasant is the introduced or continental form.",
                                            "Some jurisdictions treat the bird as a valued game species, others as an introduced or potentially invasive alien."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Common Pheasant this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-neighbours",
                                        "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            {
                                                "name": "Green pheasant (Phasianus versicolor)",
                                                "difference": "Male is largely iridescent green rather than copper-maroon; native to Japan and treated as a separate species on the IOC list."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus)",
                                                "difference": "Much smaller; male has a golden crest and a barred orange ruff, not a bare red facial skin and long uniformly tapering pheasant tail of P. colchicus."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Reeve's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii)",
                                                "difference": "Male has a strongly scaled body and an extremely long white-and-chestnut tail; lacks the common pheasant's red wattle-and-ear-tuft head pattern."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Grey partridge (Perdix perdix)",
                                                "difference": "Far smaller, short-tailed, rusty-faced covey bird; no long pointed tail or male copper plumage."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Red junglefowl / feral chicken (Gallus gallus)",
                                                "difference": "Cocks have a fleshy comb and arched sickle tail feathers, not a long straight pointed tail and ear tufts."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Lady Amherst's pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae)",
                                                "difference": "Male shows a black-and-white cape and green mantle; different genus and ornamental rather than standard quarry stock."
                                            }
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Common Pheasant this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Which taxonomic authority should fix the registry boundary around Phasianus colchicus, particularly for Green Pheasant comparisons and suspected hybrids?",
                "Which identification criteria reliably cover juveniles, neck-ring variation and atypical captive strains across the intended geographic range?",
                "Which validated age- and sex-specific condition measures and referral thresholds should govern assessment?",
                "Which breeding, feeding and habitat expectations remain valid beyond the predominantly North American and UK references reviewed?",
                "Which jurisdictions and management contexts must the action model support, and which authoritative rules and specialist protocols apply in each?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 7,
                "layers": 13,
                "findings": 20,
                "questions": 40
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "organism",
            "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.",
            "facetsInferred": true,
            "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.",
            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Common Pheasant, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Common Pheasant, assess its condition and ecological circumstances, and determine which observations or interventions are justified.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "living",
                "origin": "natural",
                "agency": "autonomous",
                "mobility": "self-moving"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Described in 97 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is."
            ],
            "openQuestionsForResearch": [
                "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?",
                "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?",
                "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Common Pheasant, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.",
                "Acts on its own behalf.",
                "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing."
            ],
            "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [
                "observe it, measure it, record its state"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone."
            ],
            "relatedModels": [],
            "standing": "Described in 97 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.",
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "identity-and-classification",
                        "name": "Identity, naming and classification",
                        "description": "How an agent tells one Common Pheasant from another, and a Common Pheasant from things that resemble it.",
                        "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "naming-and-identifiers",
                                "name": "Names and identifiers",
                                "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases",
                                        "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names",
                                        "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a Common Pheasant, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Common Pheasant, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Common Pheasant is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "stable-identifiers",
                                        "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys",
                                        "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Common Pheasant, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Common Pheasant, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Common Pheasant is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "classification-and-granularity",
                                "name": "Classification and granularity",
                                "description": "Where a Common Pheasant sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "kind-and-parents",
                                        "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds",
                                        "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Common Pheasant, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Common Pheasant, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Common Pheasant is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "distinguishing-features",
                                        "name": "Distinguishing features",
                                        "description": "What separates a Common Pheasant from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Common Pheasant, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Common Pheasant, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Common Pheasant is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "form-and-composition",
                        "name": "Form, composition and condition",
                        "description": "What a Common Pheasant is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.",
                        "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "form-and-dimensions",
                                "name": "Form and dimensions",
                                "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "measurable-dimensions",
                                        "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units",
                                        "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a Common Pheasant, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a Common Pheasant, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a Common Pheasant is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "material-and-composition",
                                "name": "Material and composition",
                                "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "parts-and-materials",
                                        "name": "Parts and life stages",
                                        "description": "The parts of a Common Pheasant and the stages it passes through.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Common Pheasant, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a Common Pheasant, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a Common Pheasant is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "condition-and-integrity",
                                "name": "Condition and integrity",
                                "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "condition-assessment",
                                        "name": "Condition, damage and health",
                                        "description": "How the condition of a Common Pheasant is judged and by whom.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Common Pheasant, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a Common Pheasant, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a Common Pheasant is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "place-and-movement",
                        "name": "Place and movement",
                        "description": "Where a Common Pheasant is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).",
                        "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "location-and-placement",
                                "name": "Location and placement",
                                "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "position-and-frame",
                                        "name": "Position, container and reference frame",
                                        "description": "Where a Common Pheasant is, and what that position is measured against.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Common Pheasant, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Common Pheasant, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Common Pheasant is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "movement-and-transfer",
                                "name": "Movement and transfer",
                                "description": "How a Common Pheasant moves on its own.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "movement-events",
                                        "name": "Movement events and constraints",
                                        "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Common Pheasant, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Common Pheasant, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Common Pheasant is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "state-and-lifecycle",
                        "name": "State and lifecycle",
                        "description": "The states a Common Pheasant passes through and the events that move it between them.",
                        "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "lifecycle-stages",
                                "name": "Lifecycle stages",
                                "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "stages-and-transitions",
                                        "name": "Stages and transitions",
                                        "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Common Pheasant between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Common Pheasant, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Common Pheasant, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Common Pheasant is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "observations-and-status",
                                "name": "Observations and current status",
                                "description": "What is observed about a Common Pheasant, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a Common Pheasant is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Common Pheasant, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Common Pheasant, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Common Pheasant is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "taxonomic-placement",
                        "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification",
                        "description": "What Common Pheasant is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.",
                        "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "accepted-name",
                                "name": "Accepted name and synonymy",
                                "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "name-and-authority",
                                        "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms",
                                        "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "name-and-authority-q01",
                                                "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of Common Pheasant, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "name-and-authority-q02",
                                                "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "field-identification",
                                "name": "Field identification",
                                "description": "The characters that separate Common Pheasant from what it is confused with.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "diagnostic-characters",
                                        "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds",
                                        "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01",
                                                "text": "Which observable characters distinguish Common Pheasant from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02",
                                                "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "life-cycle-and-condition",
                        "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour",
                        "description": "What Common Pheasant does over its life and how its state is judged.",
                        "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "stages-and-reproduction",
                                "name": "Stages and reproduction",
                                "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "life-stages",
                                        "name": "Life stages and their marks",
                                        "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "life-stages-q01",
                                                "text": "What stages does Common Pheasant pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "life-stages-q02",
                                                "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "health-and-condition",
                                "name": "Health and condition",
                                "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "condition-assessment",
                                        "name": "Condition assessment",
                                        "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q01",
                                                "text": "How is the condition of Common Pheasant judged, on what scale, and by whom?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q02",
                                                "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "range-and-status",
                        "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status",
                        "description": "Where Common Pheasant lives and how threatened it is.",
                        "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "habitat-and-range",
                                "name": "Habitat and range",
                                "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "range-record",
                                        "name": "Range, introductions and habitat",
                                        "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "range-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What is the native range of Common Pheasant, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "range-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "protection-status",
                                "name": "Protection and legal status",
                                "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "status-and-rules",
                                        "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence",
                                        "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "status-and-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What conservation status does Common Pheasant hold, under which assessment and year?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "status-and-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a Common Pheasant came from and when it held.",
                        "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "source-and-authority",
                                "name": "Source and authority",
                                "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "claim-provenance",
                                        "name": "Claim provenance and confidence",
                                        "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Common Pheasant and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Common Pheasant, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Common Pheasant, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Common Pheasant is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "time-and-versions",
                                "name": "Time, versions and supersession",
                                "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "validity-and-supersession",
                                        "name": "Validity period and supersession",
                                        "description": "How an old claim about a Common Pheasant is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Common Pheasant, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Common Pheasant, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Common Pheasant is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 8,
                "layers": 17,
                "findings": 19,
                "questions": 51
            }
        }
    }
}