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Lophura nycthemera (Silver Pheasant)

Synonyms: Phasianus nycthemerus

Wikipedia Abstract

The silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera) is a species of pheasant found in forests, mainly in mountains, of mainland Southeast Asia, and eastern and southern China, with introduced populations in Hawaii and various locations in the US mainland. The male is black and white, while the female is mainly brown. Both sexes have a bare red face and red legs (the latter separating it from the greyish-legged kalij pheasant). It is common in aviculture, and overall also remains common in the wild, but some of its subspecies (notably whiteheadi from Hainan, engelbachi from southern Laos, and annamensis from southern Vietnam) are rare and threatened.
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Infraspecies

Lophura nycthemera annamensis (Annamese silver pheasant)
Lophura nycthemera beaulieui (Lao silver pheasant)
Lophura nycthemera beli (Bel's silver pheasant)
Lophura nycthemera berliozi (Berlioz's silver pheasant)
Lophura nycthemera crawfurdii
Lophura nycthemera engelbachi (Boloven silver pheasant)
Lophura nycthemera fokiensis (Fokien silver pheasant)
Lophura nycthemera jonesi (Jones' silver pheasant)
Lophura nycthemera lewisi (Lewis' silver pheasant)
Lophura nycthemera lineata (Lineated kalij)
Lophura nycthemera nycthemera (Silver pheasant)
Lophura nycthemera occidentalis (Western silver pheasant)
Lophura nycthemera omeiensis
Lophura nycthemera ripponi (Rippon's silver pheasant)
Lophura nycthemera rongjiangensis
Lophura nycthemera rufipes (Ruby Mines silver pheasant)
Lophura nycthemera whiteheadi (Hainan silver pheasant)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
10
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.24064
EDGE Score: 1.44472
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.296 lbs (1.495 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  22 grams
Female Weight [1]  2.734 lbs (1.24 kg)
Male Weight [1]  3.858 lbs (1.75 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  41.1 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [4]  7
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Incubation [3]  27 days
Snout to Vent Length [1]  25 inches (64 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Prey / Diet

Castanopsis chinensis[3]
Ficus benjamina (weeping fig)[5]
Ficus superba (Sea Fig)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

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
♦ 5"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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