Pheasants
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Domestic Birds
Pheasants / Peafowl
Pheasants are one of the most endangered groups of birds in the world. In many countries pheasant species are hunted…
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Blue Eared Pheasant (Crossoptilon auritum)
The Blue Eared Pheasants (Crossoptilon auritum) are monotypic species (a genus consisting of only one single species). It is found…
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Elliot’s Pheasants aka Bar-backed Pheasants
The Elliot's Pheasant is also known as the Chinese Barred-backed Pheasant or Bar-backed Pheasant. Its name commemorates the American ornithologist…
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Hume’s Pheasant, also known as Mrs Hume’s Pheasant or Bar-tailed Pheasant
The Hume’s Pheasant, Syrmaticus humiae – also known as Mrs Hume’s Pheasant or Bar-tailed Pheasant – is endemic to China,…
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Bornean Crested Fireback Pheasants, Lophura ignita ignita
The Crested Fireback pheasants (Lophura ignita ignita) include four different sub-species which are all endemic to the tropical rainforest regions…
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Green Pheasants aka Japanese Green Pheasants
Green Pheasants (Phasianus versicolor) The Green Pheasants, Phasianus versicolor – also known as Japanese Pheasants or Versicolor Pheasants – are endemic…
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Swinhoe’s Pheasant (Lophura swinhoii)
The Swinhoe’s Pheasants, Lophura swinhoii, is also regionally known as the Formosan Pheasant, Mountain Chicken, Red-footed Mountain Chicken, or Blue…
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Blood Pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus)
The Blood Pheasants (Ithaginis cruentus) is the only species in the genus Ithaginis of the Pheasant family. There are 15…
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Edward’s Pheasant (Lophura edwardsi)
The Edward’s Pheasants, Lophura edwardsi, is endemic to the bamboo forests of central Vietnam. This bird is named after the…
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Argus Pheasants
The Argus Pheasants is closely related to pheasants and peacocks. This spectacular species comes from Southeast Asia, naturally occurring in the…
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