Sumatran peacock-pheasant
The bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron chalcurum ) is also known as the Sumatran peacock-pheasant. It is an Indonesian bird.
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Not a migrantAnimals that do not make seasonal movements and stay in their native home ranges all year round are called not migrants or residents.
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starts withThe bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant is a small, up to 56 cm long, dark brown pheasant with dark grey legs, rather small head and long, narrow tail of sixteen feathers. The tail feathers are chestnut brown with metallic purplish bars near tips. Both sexes are similar. The male has longer tail, two spurs on legs and yellow iris while the unspurred female's is dark brown.
An Indonesian endemic, the bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant inhabits to mountain forests of west Sumatra.
As with other member in the genus, this elusive bird is shy and very wary. But unlike other peacock-pheasants, it has no ocelli.