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Ithaginis cruentus (Blood Pheasant)

Synonyms: Ithaginus cruentus; Phasianus cruentus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The blood pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus) is the only species in genus Ithaginis of the pheasant family. This relatively small, short-tailed pheasant is widespread and fairly common in eastern Himalayas, ranging across India, Nepal, Bhutan and China. Since the trend of the population appears to be slowly decreasing, the species has been evaluated as Least Concern by IUCN in 2009. The blood pheasant is the state bird of the Indian state of Sikkim.
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Infraspecies

Ithaginis cruentus affinis
Ithaginis cruentus annae
Ithaginis cruentus beicki (Beick's blood pheasant)
Ithaginis cruentus berezowskii (Beresowski's blood pheasant)
Ithaginis cruentus clarkei (Clark's blood pheasant)
Ithaginis cruentus cruentus (Himalayan blood pheasant)
Ithaginis cruentus geoffroyi (Geoffroy's blood pheasant)
Ithaginis cruentus holoptilus
Ithaginis cruentus kuseri (Kuser's blood pheasant)
Ithaginis cruentus marionae (Mrs Vernay's blood pheasant)
Ithaginis cruentus michaelis (Bianchi's blood pheasant)
Ithaginis cruentus rocki (Rock's blood pheasant)
Ithaginis cruentus sinensis (David's blood pheasant)
Ithaginis cruentus tibetanus (Tibetan blood pheasant)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
9
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
34
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 18.3363
EDGE Score: 2.96199
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.166 lbs (529 g)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  10 %
Forages - Understory [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  80 %
Clutch Size [4]  4
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Incubation [3]  37 days
Snout to Vent Length [1]  16 inches (41 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve V 462837 Yunnan, China  
Medog Nature Reserve   China      
Mount Everest (Sagarmatha) National Park II 275416 Nepal
Wolong Nature Reserve V 826140 Sichuan, China  

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Emblem of

Sikkim

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Capillaria phasianina[5]
Heterakis isolonche[5]

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
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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