With the alias of golden pheasant, the bird belongs to the Phasianidae family of Galliformes order. Its scientific name is Chrysolophus pictus (Latin), or Grey Peacock Pheasant (English).
The full body length of the male bird is about 65 centimeters and the female is about 50 centimeters. Body feathers of the male are black brown, densely covered with approximately white thin dots and transverse spots. The vertex has filiform aigret. Its back, two wings and tail are metallic blue with large eye-shaped purple spots. The beak is black, and the feet are black and tan with two short calcars. The female's feathers are comparatively dark and the eye-shaped spots are not very prominent. Its tail is short.
Inhabiting in broadleaf evergreen forests and canebrakes at an elevation of 150 to 1,500 meters, the bird usually moves alone or in pairs, feeding on insects, worms, fruit, and seeds. Its breeding period is from the last ten days of February to the beginning of March. The nests are mainly built in gulches of jungles and secondary forests near cultivated lands in mountainous areas, usually in naturally sunken ground. It lays 2 to 5 eggs per brood, occasionally 6 eggs. Theincubation periodlasts 21 days.
Grey Peacock Pheasant ismainly distributed in Yunnan and Hainan provinces.
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