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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Lophura nycthemera
- Commons category
- Lophura nycthemera
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- Lophura nycthemera
- taxon common name
- Сребърен фазан
- litter size
- 6.5
- egg incubation period
- 27
- described by source
- Gujin Tushu Jicheng
- short name
- L. nycthemera
- taxon range
- Nanling Mountains
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Encyclopedic overview
Silver pheasant cock in captivity. Note the brown patches, typical of sub-adult males
The silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera) is a species of pheasant found in forests, mainly in mountains, of mainland Southeast Asia and eastern and southern China. It is introduced on Victoria Island in Nahuel Huapi Lake, Neuquén, Argentina and on Vancouver Island, Canada. The male is black and white, while the female is mainly brown. Both sexes have a bare red face and red legs (the latter separating it from the greyish-legged kalij pheasant). It is common in aviculture, and overall also remains common in the wild, but some of its subspecies (notably L. n. whiteheadi from Hainan, L. n. engelbachi from southern Laos, and L. n. annamensis from southern Vietnam) are rare and threatened.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Silver Pheasant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.