Reeves’s pheasant description

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Galliformes
Family Phasianidae
Genus Syrmaticus

This boldly patterned pheasant is instantly recognisable, having some of the longest tail feathers of any bird species. The male has bright golden-chestnut upperparts, with black borders to each feather creating a strongly scaled appearance, while the upper breast is darker chestnut to black, and the lower breast and side feathers are white, tipped in black. The male’s tremendously long orange-buff tail is conspicuously barred with black and white, and the head and neck are white, encircled with a distinctive black mask across the eyes and a black collar around the neck. The female has a shorter tail than the male, and as in most pheasants, is more dull-coloured, being mottled brown, buff and white, providing excellent camouflage when nesting. The face and throat are buff, with a brown crown and band behind the eye, and the tail is barred with buff and brown.
Also known asbar-tailed long-tailed pheasant, white-crowned long-tailed pheasant.

SizeMale length: 210 cm
Female length: 75 cm

Reeves’s pheasant biology
Reeves’s pheasant aggregates into flocks of around six individuals (sometimes of ten or more in autumn and winter), dispersing into smaller groups in March with the onset of the breeding season. Male pheasants establish and advertise territories, attracting females by calling and ‘wing-whirring’ from March to early June. Male pheasants also exhibit strong site fidelity, typically returning to the same territory each year. This pheasant is thought to be primarily monogamous, but occasionally polygamous. Females lay six to ten eggs into a nest on the ground, usually under bushes or in the grass. Incubation lasts 24 to 25 days and is performed by the female alone.

This omnivorous bird forages by scratching and digging in the ground, mainly for fruits and seeds, but also for buds, fresh leaves, flowers and some insects, snails and earthworms. Cultivated beans, cereals and root crops are also taken from nearby farmland. Reeves’s pheasant roosts high off the ground, particularly in mature fir plantations where the bigger conifer trees offer excellent cover and a variety of roost-sites.

Reeves’s pheasant range
Reeves’s pheasant occupies a fragmented distribution across the mountainous areas of central China and has also been introduced to Hawaii and various parts of Europe.
video taken by Sahanan Dejudom



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