Reeves's Pheasant

Order - Galliformes 鸡形目
Family - Phasianidae 雉科 (Pheasants, Partridges, Turkeys, Grouse)
Genus - Syrmaticus 长尾雉属

Reeves's Pheasant

Syrmaticus reevesii

白冠长尾雉

    Size : Male c. 210 cm (tail 100–160 cm, perhaps exceptionally 200 cm  

             in oldest males), mean c. 1529 g
             Female c. 150 cm (tail 33–45 cm), mean c. 949 g

             

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Monotypic (J. E. Gray, 1829, China)
  – N & C China locally through Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui and N Hubei to S Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Hunan; range much reduced and apparently has been extirpated from Shanxi and Hebei.

       Introduced to several areas, e.g. Britain (possibly extinct), France, 

       Germany, Austria and Hawaii, but most of these populations probably 

       not self-sustaining; well established in Czech Republic.

Date : 28 April 2018
董寨鸟类自然保护区 (白云站), 罗山县, 信阳市, 河南省, 中国

Dongzhai Nature Reserve, Luoshan County, Xinyang Prefecture-level City, 
Henan Province, China