Female Golden Pheasant (Bird)

Shy and surprisingly difficult to find in mixed and conifer woodland, where it runs quickly from detected disturbance. Red-and-gold male stunning and unmistakable. Female differs from Common Pheasant in strongly barred plumage, dull pinkish (not gray) legs and feet and from Lady Amherst’s Pheasant in lighter barring, more orangeish coloration, and the lack of a bare patch of gray skin behind the eye. Native to China but introduced very locally in Britain and Hawaii; however, captive birds might escape anywhere.

A female peacock

A female Germain’s peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron germaini) at Pheasant Heaven in Clinton, North Carolina. This species is listed as near threatened by IUCN.

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