Pheasant wattles paint help

Your correct, gill red.

 

I use a mixture of gill red & a little mars red. Make sure you don't cake it on! For me, just plain gill red gets a little too pinkish. My 2 cents.

 

Gill red or cadmium red here. I think they are the same thing, though, under different names.
Live pheasants' wattles are so bright that it looks like the crazy things have light bulbs in their heads!
If the wattles have dried dark then I will sometimes give them an undercoat of cadmium yellow mixed with just enough white to make it opaque. Cadmium red sprayed over that will be very bright and that way you won't have to apply too much paint. The individual little black feathers are easy to touch up with a Sharpie marker.

 

Napthol Red Light by Wildlife Colors. Best and brightest red I've found for pheasant wattles.