i am going to give you what i have seen for 50 years hunting..the dog that i saw that could do it all,NOT GREAT,but all around hunting dog is the LAB..

as said here, the one that has long legs and weights no more than 80 pds for male and lower for female is one to get..they are called AMERICAN FIELD LAB..their head is not BOXY like the english labs..

there are better dogs for pheasants, also grouse, also rabbits but none of those will hunt as good as lab on all of them ..

they can take WIND,SNOW, COLD, HEAT,they can handle themselves if coyote attacks or another dog..if they are caught in coyote traps, they are tough,you can get their paw out and they will go hunting,some dogs limp after getting in trap..they swim like a beaver..they are no GIRLIEDOG,they are hunter..they hunt 20 yds out in front of you,NO COLLARS with beepers going off or seeing your dog running away after rabbit over mtn or flushing a pheasants 100 yds away..their feet seem to be tougher than other dogs, you dont get cuts and thorns like i saw on brittanys,springers etc..

you want a ALL AROUND DOG,then lab is as close as you can get..if you want dog that is good just for pheasant, then as said above, there are better ones..