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The clade Phasianidae is the largest of the branch Galliformes, comprising 185 species divided into 54 genera. [3] This group includes the pheasants and partridges, junglefowl chickens, quail, and peafowl.
The Phasianinae (Horsfield, 1821) are a subfamily of the pheasant family (Phasianidae) of landfowl, the order Galliformes.The subfamily includes true pheasants, tragopans, grouse, turkey and similar birds. [1]
The males are polygynous as is typical for many Phasianidae, and are often accompanied by a harem of several females. [36] Common pheasants produce a clutch of around 8–15 eggs, sometimes as many as 18, but usually 10 to 12; they are pale olive in colour, and laid over a 2–3 week period in April to June in the Northern Hemisphere.
Phasianini is a tribe of birds in the subfamily Phasianinae. It contains the true pheasants.Species in this tribe are found throughout Europe and Asia.This grouping was supported by a 2021 phylogenetic analysis of Galliformes, and accepted by the International Ornithological Congress.
The snowcocks or snowfowl are a group of bird species in the genus Tetraogallus of the pheasant family, Phasianidae. They are ground-nesting birds that breed in the mountain ranges of southern Eurasia from the Caucasus to the Himalayas and western China. Some of the species have been introduced into the United States.
The Himalayan snowcock (Tetraogallus himalayensis) is a snowcock in the pheasant family Phasianidae found across the Himalayan ranges and parts of the adjoining Pamir range of Asia. It is found on alpine pastures and on steep rocky cliffs where they will dive down the hill slopes to escape.
The name Phasianoidea is formed by the union of the elements of scientific Latin Phasian-and -oidea.The first is the genitive root of the name of its type genus, Phasianus; and the second is the ending -oidea, neutral plural of -oideus, derived from ancient Greek εἴδος eidos, 'aspect', 'appearance', 'form', with the union vowel -o-, used in the formation of numerous names of orders and ...
The male (cock) southern green pheasant, P. v. versicolor, has dark green plumage on the breast, neck, mantle, and flanks. The male also has a bluish-purplish hood with clear ear tufts, red wattles, and a long, pale grey-banded tail.