Snow pheasant
Baima Snow aka chicken pheasant, have also been known historically white chicken (then considered a subspecies of white chicken Department of the species, according to the geographical distribution of the various subspecies of the species was collectively referred to as white chicken), is Chinese endemic bird species.
Ecological environment: Hakuba chicken is a typical highland birds, living at an altitude of 3000 meters to the snow line altitude. Other species more than twenty to thirty form of small group activities in a relatively low altitude forests of pine or oak forest edge areas, or activities in the higher elevations of the mountain rhododendron leaves, common and blood pheasant, quail, pheasant, etc. mixed groups. This species does not like flat wide open environment, but not in any other species like horses chicken is so timid, sometimes in groups activities to the nearby Tibetan Tibetan package.
Geographical Distribution: Hakuba chicken found only in the eastern highlands of China, Tibet, Gansu, southern Qinghai, Yunnan and western Sichuan
Features: White Horse chicken Department pheasants larger body, the body length of up to nearly one meter. Female and male anthropomorphic color. Black adult birds head for fine velvet-like feathers, red face for the same fine velvet-like feathers, a pair of white ear-like feathers shorter than belong to a number of other species, are not prominent in the outside of the head, and because the body feathers also white, contrast, was not very clear, and therefore less significant ear tufts; upper and lower body plumage is pure white, fluffy thick feathers, fur mammal quite visually observed texture; upper wing coverts blue-gray tail coverts equitably, times level flight feathers blue-black; white tail base to the end of a gradual transition to blue-black. Overall giving the impression legs began after the transition from black to blue from head and tail. Iris orange; beak pale pink; foot red, with distance.
Food: White Horse is a typical chicken herbivorous birds, their food, including wild plants such as ferns plateau, mosses, roots and seeds and other crops such as barley, and occasionally feeding on insects, including Coleoptera, Lepidoptera insects.
Propagation and Protection: wild breeding ominous, ornithologists Zheng as the new Qinghai Yushu had collected over a white horse chicken nest, hidden in the back of the dead wood decayed by the spruce branches, moss, hay, structures made of feathers.
cites endangerment: Appendix i entry into force: 1997
iucn endangerment: Vulnerable entry into force: 1996
iucn endangerment: lr / nt entry into force: 2003
Chinese national key protection: two entry into force: 1989
China Red Data Book of Endangered Animals rating: Vulnerable entry into force: 1996
Endangered factors: habitat destruction, illegal hunting and predators threat is caused by the species endangered major factors, the most suitable Whitehorse chicken habitat of forest in the local area is a major timber, so this species suitable habitat is shrinking pose a threat to the species ; the local residents to hunt the species and the species of bird eggs dig as food has a long history, and the tail of the species have been used to make decorations, make this species are facing the threat of illegal hunting. |
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