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Gallopheasant
The gallopheasants (genus ''Lophura'') are pheasants of the family Phasianidae. The genus comprises 11 species and several subspecies. Several species in this genus are known as firebacks, including crestless and crested firebacks, as well as the Siamese fireback. Taxonomy ''Lophura hatinhensis The Vietnamese pheasant, or Vietnam fireback, was formerly considered a species of gallopheasant, ''Lophura hatinhensis'', but is now considered a variant of Edward's pheasant. Discovered in 1964, it is endemic to central Vietnam. Its range c ...'' and '' Lophura hoogerwerfi'' are sometimes considered subspecies, leaving this genus with only 11 species. Other subspecies are also sometimes considered distinct species. *''Lophura × imperialis'' - imperial pheasant References * {{Galliformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phasianidae
The Phasianidae are a family of heavy, ground-living birds, which includes pheasants, partridges, junglefowl, chickens, turkeys, Old World quail, and peafowl. The family includes many of the most popular gamebirds. The family is a large one and includes 185 species divided into 54 genera. It was formerly broken up into two subfamilies, the Phasianinae and the Perdicinae. However, this treatment is now known to be paraphyletic and polyphyletic, respectively, and more recent evidence supports breaking it up into two subfamilies: Rollulinae and Phasianinae, with the latter containing multiple tribes within two clades. The New World quail (Odontophoridae) and guineafowl (Numididae) were formerly sometimes included in this family, but are now typically placed in families of their own; conversely, grouse and turkeys, formerly often treated as distinct families (Tetraonidae and Meleagrididae, respectively), are now known to be deeply nested within Phasianidae, so they are now included in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial Pheasant
The imperial pheasant (''Lophura'' × ''imperialis'') is a gallopheasant from Southeast Asia. Long thought to be an enigmatic and elusive species, it is actually a cross of Edwards's pheasant and the silver pheasant (''L. nycthemera'' subsp''. annamensis''), a hybrid. The imperial pheasant is a dark blue, medium-sized, up to 75 cm long pheasant with bare red facial skin, blue crest, crimson legs and glossy plumage. The female is brown with erectile short feather crest, blackish tail and primaries. This pheasant is found in the forests of Vietnam and Laos. Its appearance resembles another of Vietnam's enigmatic birds, the Vietnamese pheasant, but it is larger in size, has a longer tail, and an all dark blue crest and tail feathers. The latter species has a white crest and central tail feathers. Previously known only from a pair taken alive to Europe by Jean Théodore Delacour in 1923, this species was rediscovered in 1990, when an immature male was trapped by a rattan coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lophura Hatinhensis
The Vietnamese pheasant, or Vietnam fireback, was formerly considered a species of gallopheasant, ''Lophura hatinhensis'', but is now considered a variant of Edward's pheasant. Discovered in 1964, it is endemic to central Vietnam. Its range concentrates around Kẻ Gỗ Nature Reserve in Hà Tĩnh Province. Habitat The fireback inhabits primary and secondary (including logged) evergreen forest in lowlands and hills from sea level (at least historically) to about 300 m. It may tolerate habitat degradation, but is apparently far more common in closed-canopy forest, and has been trapped in dense, streamside vegetation. References * Gallopheasants Endemic birds of Vietnam Endangered animals Endangered biota of Asia Controversial bird taxa Hà Tĩnh province {{Galliformes-stub it:Lophura hatinhensis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Pheasant
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, with an introduced population on Victoria Island in Nahuel Huapi Lake, Neuquén, Argentina. 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).McGowan, P. J. K. (1994). Silver Pheasant (''Lophura nycthemera''). pp. 533 in: del Hoyo, J, A. Elliott, & J. Sargatal (1994). ''Handbook of the Birds of the World''. Vol. 2. New World Vultures to Guineafowl. Lynx Editions. 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. Taxonomy Like other pheasants, the silver pheasant was placed in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lophura Hoogerwerfi
Hoogerwerf's pheasant (''Lophura inornata hoogerwerfi''), also known as the Aceh pheasant or Sumatran pheasant is a medium-sized, up to long, bird of the family Phasianidae. The name commemorates the Dutch ornithologist and taxidermist Andries Hoogerwerf. Description The male is a crestless bluish-black pheasant with bare red facial skin, short tail and grey legs. The female is a rufous brown bird with a dark bluish grey legs and short dark tail. Its appearance resembles, and it is usually considered as a subspecies of the Salvadori's pheasant. The female is different from the latter for having darker brown, lack of buff mottling and plainer plumage. Distribution and habitat An Indonesian endemic, this little-known pheasant inhabits to mid-mountain forests of Gunung Leuser National Park in Aceh province. Previously known only from two female specimens, it was recently discovered in a market in Medan, North Sumatra. References External links Red Data Book {{Taxonbar, from= ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvadori's Pheasant
Salvadori's pheasant (''Lophura inornata'') is a landfowl bird of genus '' Lophura'', native to Indonesia. It is found in the mountain rainforests of Sumatra. Thus it is also known as the Sumatran pheasant. The Hoogerwerf's pheasant is usually thought to be a subspecies. This bird was first described in 1879 by the Italian ornithologist Tommaso Salvadori. The species name ''inornata'' means "without ornament". This species is classified as "near threatened" by the IUCN because of the reduction in its population size caused by the destruction of its habitat and hunting. Description The male and female Salvadori's pheasant are quite unlike each other in appearance, and in fact the male bird is very similar to the female crestless fireback (''Lophura erythrophthalma''). The male Salvadori's pheasant is in length and is plain black, with a bluish fringe to the feathers of body and neck. The tail is short and rounded. The beak is whitish-green and the iris orange-red. There is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siamese Fireback RWD
Siamese describes something of or related to Siam (now called Thailand), or more specifically the region of Central Thailand, usually including Southern Thailand. Siamese may refer to: Animals *Siamese cat, a domestic cat breed *Siamese crocodile, a species of crocodile *Siamese mud carp, a species of freshwater fish in the carp family, Cyprinidae *Siamese algae eater, a species of freshwater fish in the carp family, Cyprinidae *Siamese fighting fish, a species of fish from genus ''Betta'' *Siamese fireback, ''Lophura diardi'', the national bird of Thailand *Siamese tigerfish, a species of fish from genus ''Datnioides'', tiger perch Other uses * Conjoined twins or Siamese twins, identical twins joined in utero ** Chang and Eng Bunker, The "Siamese Twins", Siamese-American conjoined twin brothers from whom the term derives * Siamese (band), formerly Siamese Fighting Fish, Danish rock and metal band * Siamese connection or a splitter in fire protection engineering * Siamese metho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bornean Crested Fireback
The crested fireback (''Lophura ignita'') is a medium-sized, up to 70 cm long, forest pheasant with a peacock-like dark crest, bluish black plumage, reddish brown rump, black outer tail feathers, red iris and bare blue facial skin. The female is a brown bird with short crest, blue facial skin and spotted black-and-white below. The crested fireback is found in lowland forests of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra. There are four subspecies of the crested fireback, but in 2014 the subspecies ''rufa'' was split as a distinct species from the others. Males of the subspecies from Borneo and Bangka Island, ''L. i. ignita'' (lesser Bornean crested fireback) and ''L. i. nobilis'' (greater Bornean crested fireback), have brown central tail feathers, whitish legs and are rufous below. The male Vieillot's crested fireback, ''L. rufa'', of the Thai-Malay Peninsula and most of Sumatra has white central tail feathers, red legs and bluish black streaked white below. The final sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malayan Crested Fireback
The Malayan crested fireback or Malay crested fireback (''Lophura rufa'') is a species of forest pheasant found in lowland forests of the Thai-Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. Taxonomy This species was formerly considered a subspecies of the Bornean crested fireback (''L. ignita''), with both being grouped together as the crested fireback. Substantial plumage differences between both taxa led to the IUCN and Clements Checklist splitting both, with the International Ornithological Congress also making this change in 2023. A pheasant of uncertain taxonomic provenance, popularly referred to as "Delacour's crested fireback" (formerly ''Lophura ignita macartneyi'') is found in south-eastern Sumatra and the male has white to the tail, whitish legs and a variable amount of rufous below. As ''macartneyi'' specimens are variable, the Handbook of Birds of the World regards it as a hybrid between ''L. rufa'' and a possible relictual or introduced population of ''L. ignita''. In 2023, the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bornean Crestless Fireback
The Bornean crestless fireback (''Lophura pyronota'') is a member of the Phasianidae. It was previously known as the crestless fireback when the two species were lumped together. The Bornean crestless fireback is found in northern Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the List of islands by area, third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java Isl .... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q31074821 Gallopheasants Birds described in 1841 Taxa named by George Robert Gray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
