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Silver Pheasant |
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DESCRIPTION
Male 35 1/2 to 50 inches (90 to 127cm). Long white tail, red
face, long black crest. Upperparts white, lined with black. Yellow bill,
red legs. Female 213/4 to 263/4 inches (55 to 68cm),
earthy brown, streaked with whitish below. First-year males brown, larger
and lighter than females, more bars on breast and tail.
NATURAL DISTRIBUTION
Southern China, eastern Burma, Indo-China, Hainan.
HABITAT
Silver Pheasant likes grassland bordered by forest, rarely penetrates
into dense forest.
DIET Range
of animal and vegetable matter, including beetles, flower petals, grass
and leaves.
SPECIAL NEEDS Shelter
as well as outside habitat.
CAGE LIFE
The Silver Pheasant, like most grassland pheasants, with dominant males
courting many females and defending their territory with whistling calls.
Several hens can be kept with one cock. Does well at liberty, but a poor
game bird because it seldom flies.
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