Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Galliformes > Phasianidae > Crossoptilon > Crossoptilon mantchuricumCrossoptilon mantchuricum (Brown Eared Pheasant)The brown eared pheasant (Crossoptilon mantchuricum) is a large, 96–100 cm long, dark brown pheasant endemic to the mountain forests of northern China. It has stiff white ear coverts behind the eyes, which look like a moustache. The crown is black with red bare facial skin and its tail of twenty-two elongated white feathers is curved, loose and dark-tipped. Both sexes are similar in plumage. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 2.87721 EDGE Score: 2.74141 |
Adult Weight [1] | 4.264 lbs (1.934 kg) | Female Weight [3] | 3.836 lbs (1.74 kg) | Male Weight [3] | 4.553 lbs (2.065 kg) | Weight Dimorphism [3] | 18.7 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [2] | Herbivore | Diet - Plants [2] | 100 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [4] | 8 | Incubation [3] | 26 days | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 39 inches (98 cm) |
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Dongling Shan |
China (mainland) |
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Huanglong Shan Brown Eared-pheasant Nature Reserve |
China (mainland) |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Luya Shan Nature Reserve |
China (mainland) |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Pangquangou Nature Reserve |
China (mainland) |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Tianlongshan Nature Reserve |
China (mainland) |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Wulu Shan Nature Reserve |
China (mainland) |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Xiaowutai Nature Reserve |
China (mainland) |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 4Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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