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  2. Golden pheasant - Wikipedia

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    The golden pheasant is commonly found in zoos and aviaries, but often as hybrid specimens that have the similar Lady Amherst's pheasant in their lineage. [3] There are also different mutations of the golden pheasant known from birds in captivity, including the dark-throated, yellow, cinnamon, salmon, peach, splash, mahogany and silver.

  3. Xeno-canto - Wikipedia

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    xeno-canto is a citizen science project and repository in which volunteers record, upload and annotate recordings of bird calls and sounds of orthoptera and bats. [2] Since it began in 2005, it has collected over 575,000 sound recordings from more than 10,000 species worldwide, and has become one of the biggest collections of bird sounds in the world. [1]

  4. Chrysolophus - Wikipedia

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    Chrysolophus is a genus of the pheasant family of birds. The genus name is from Ancient Greek khrusolophos, "with golden crest". [1] These are species which have spectacularly plumaged males. The golden pheasant is native to western China, and Lady Amherst's pheasant to Tibet and westernmost China, but both have

  5. Pheasant - Wikipedia

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    Pheasant fowling, "Showing how to catch pheasants", facsimile of a miniature in the manuscript of the "Livre du Roy Modus" (fourteenth century). Cheer pheasant pair in Himalaya, India Pheasants ( / ˈ f ɛ z ə n t s / FEH -zənts ) are birds of several genera within the family Phasianidae in the order Galliformes .

  6. Common pheasant - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  7. List of birds of Colorado - Wikipedia

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    The mimids are a family of passerine birds which includes thrashers, mockingbirds, tremblers, and the New World catbirds. These birds are notable for their vocalization, especially their remarkable ability to mimic a wide variety of birds and other sounds heard outdoors. The species tend towards dull grays and browns in their appearance.

  8. Lady Amherst's pheasant - Wikipedia

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    Lady Amherst's pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae) is a bird of the order Galliformes and the family Phasianidae. The genus name is from Ancient Greek khrusolophos , "with golden crest". The English name and amherstiae commemorates Sarah Amherst , who was responsible for sending the first specimen of the bird to London in 1828. [ 2 ]

  9. List of birds of Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the bird species recorded in Ethiopia. The avifauna of Ethiopia included a total of 880 confirmed species as of August 2021. Of them, 20 are endemic, one has been introduced by humans, and the statuses of 11 are under review. An additional 16 species are hypothetical as defined below.