Lore-friendly Skyrim mod fixes its most glaring realism error: The pheasants

pcgamer.com:

Skyrim has plenty of oddities. There's the goldfish memory of your enemies, the way you can get good enough at pickpocketing to literally steal the shirt off someone's back, and how it's possible for NPCs to attain a level of narrative importance sufficient to ward off death. But those are nothings. Trifles. Mere bagatelles compared to the game's most major inconsistency: The pheasants.

Think about it. Pheasants are all over the place in Skyrim, but only ever as corpses. They hang in kitchens and linger in food halls, but you can count the number of living ones you see on no hands at all. Are we to believe that the denizens of Skyrim, like the hunters of the Dodo, reduced the region's pheasant population to a set of cold bodies and warm memories? How long have they been gone? Are those corpses you can take giblets from decaying by the time the game takes place?

Put these unpleasant thoughts from your mind, because Skyrim modders are here—once again—to preserve logic and save the day. A mod called Ring-necked Pheasants — Mihail Monsters and Animals returns the humble pheasant to its natural home: Skyrim's wilderness, not its pantries.

The creator, MihailMods, is serious about their craft, too. Their mods are «implemented in an immersive and unique way, with respect to the pillars of lore,» they say, emphasising that «instead of pathetically just throwing models and textures in the game reusing 100% vanilla mechanics, the creatures made by Mihail have uniqueness and extreme zeal in their idealization and implementation, which will provide you with an experience that you have never had before in this area». Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

It honestly looks great. The author is clearly something of an ornithological