Red-bellied pheasant (scientific name: chrysolophus pictus) aliases: golden pheasant, pheasant, picker, phoenix chicken. Medium chicken with a body length of 59-110 cm. The tail length is about 38-42 cm. It is one of the most beautiful and colorful pheasants. It is a bird endemic to China and is a grade II protected animal.
The male red-bellied golden-bellied pheasant has gorgeous plumage, the head has a golden filament-like crown, the upper body is golden yellow except for the dark green of the upper back, and the back neck is orange-brown with black-edged fan-like feathers, forming a shawl-like shape. The underparts are dark red , the tail feathers are dark brown , and the pulass are speckled with cinnamon yellow.
The female red-bellied pheasant has a black-brown crown and hind neck, and the rest of the body feathers are brownish-yellow, full of black-brown spots and transverse spots. Feet yellow.
The red-bellied golden pheasant has obvious characteristics in the wild, the color of the feathers on the whole body sets off each other, and the red orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple are all complete, dazzling, and it is a well-known ornamental bird at home and abroad.
Habitat: It inhabits broad-leaved forests, mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests and sparse forest scrub areas at an altitude of 500-2500 meters, and also occurs in the areas of short trees with steep rocks and bamboo bushes, and often goes to the grass slopes of the forest edge and cultivated land in winter.
Life habits: group activities, especially in autumn and winter, sometimes in groups of more than 30 animals; spring and summer also see individual or pair activities. Sexual alertness, timidity and fear. Hearing and vision are sharp, there is a slight movement, immediately escape, when the crisis is still far away, mostly run and escape underground; when the danger is approaching, it quickly flies up the trees and disappears. Still running, in the face of low rocks or small open spaces, they spread their wings and glide through. Fly fast and dexterously, fly freely in the forest. It inhabits the canopy of trees above 4 m. It often inhabits the side branches of trees. Usually does not inhabit a single tree.
Diet: Feed on the leaves, buds, flowers, fruits and seeds of wild bowl beans, wild cherries, artemisia annua, fern leaves, wild garlic, hanging hooks, sorrel grass, roses, bearded seeds, goat's milk, arrow bamboo, acorns, Huashan pine nuts, thick plums, sumac, rhododendron, finches, oak trees, thatched chestnuts and green gang seeds, and also eat wheat, corn, four seasons beans and other crops. It also eats beetles, worms, dipterans, etc. He often forages while walking in the forest, and forages on the edge of the forest and the cultivated land in the morning and evening.
It is distributed in southeastern Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi Qinling, Sichuan, Chongqing, western Hubei, northeastern Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Shanxi and other provinces and regions of China.
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