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Blyth's tragopan pheasant is the largest of the genus Tragopan. Like most pheasants, the male is brightly colored. Like most pheasants, the male is brightly colored. It is recognized by its rusty red head, yellow facial skin, and that it is spotted with small white dots on its back called ocelli.
The Siamese fireback (Lophura diardi), also known as Diard's fireback, is a fairly large, approximately 80 cm (31 in) long, pheasant. The male has a grey plumage with an extensive facial caruncle, crimson legs and feet, ornamental black crest feathers, reddish brown iris and long curved blackish tail. The female is a brown bird with blackish ...
Syrmaticus Wagler, 1832 (long-tailed pheasants) Chrysolophus Gray, 1834 (ruffed pheasants) Phasianus Linnaeus, 1758 (true pheasants) Catreus Cabanis, 1851 (cheer pheasant) Crossoptilon Hodgson, 1838 (eared pheasants) Lophura Fleming, 1822 non Gray, 1827 non Walker, 1856 (gallopheasants) Phasianinae "Nonerectile clade" Tribe Pavonini
The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), ring-necked pheasant, or blue-headed pheasant, a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae). The genus name comes from Latin phasianus 'pheasant'. The species name colchicus is Latin for 'of Colchis ' (modern day Georgia ), a country on the Black Sea where pheasants became known to Europeans. [ 2 ]
The genus Syrmaticus contains the five species of long-tailed pheasants. The males have short spurs and usually red facial wattles , but otherwise differ wildly in appearance. The hens (females) and chicks of all the species have a rather conservative and plesiomorphic drab brown color pattern.
The Reeves's pheasant is a hardy bird and is able to tolerate both hot and cold weather. They prefer higher ground for nesting. The female lays a clutch of 7–14 eggs in April or May; the incubation period is 24–25 days. Reeves's pheasants are often aggressive towards humans, animals, and other pheasants, particularly during the breeding ...
The satyr tragopan (Tragopan satyra) also known as the crimson horned pheasant, is a pheasant found in the Himalayan reaches of India, Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan. They reside in moist oak and rhododendron forests with dense undergrowth and bamboo clumps. They range from 2400 to 4200 meters in summer and 1800 meters in winter. The male is about 70 ...
Chukar Patridge from United Arab Emirates. The chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar), or simply chukar, is a Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae.It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first.