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Crossoptilon mantchuricum (Brown Eared Pheasant)

Wikipedia Abstract

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.
View Wikipedia Record: Crossoptilon mantchuricum

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Crossoptilon mantchuricum

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
31
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.87721
EDGE Score: 2.74141
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Attributes

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 %
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [4]  8
Incubation [3]  26 days
Snout to Vent Length [1]  39 inches (98 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Eastern Gobi desert steppe China, Mongolia Palearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Mongolian-Manchurian grassland China, Mongolia Palearctic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Ordos Plateau steppe China Palearctic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands

Important Bird Areas

Prey / Diet

Allium macranthum[3]
Fragaria orientalis[3]
Hippophae rhamnoides (seabuckthorn)[3]
Parasenecio hastatus[3]
Vicia cracca (cow vetch)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

Citations

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
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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