Bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant

Bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant

Sumatran peacock-pheasant

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Polyplectron chalcurum

The bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron chalcurum ) is also known as the Sumatran peacock-pheasant. It is an Indonesian bird.

Appearance

The 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.

Distribution

Geography

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An Indonesian endemic, the bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant inhabits to mountain forests of west Sumatra.

Biome

Habits and Lifestyle

As with other member in the genus, this elusive bird is shy and very wary. But unlike other peacock-pheasants, it has no ocelli.

Lifestyle
Seasonal behavior
Bird's call

Diet and Nutrition

Population

Conservation

The bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

References

1. Bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze-tailed_peacock-pheasant
2. Bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant on The IUCN Red List site - https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22679361/92812514
3. Xeno-canto bird call - https://xeno-canto.org/598654

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