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Bronze-tailed Peacock-Pheasant
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Bronze-tailed Peacock-Pheasant
Polyplectron chalcurum
The bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron chalcurum) is also known as the Sumatran peacock-pheasant. It is an Indonesian bird.
From the article Bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant is a small, up to 56 cm long, dark brown pheasant with dark grey legs, rather small head and long, narrow tail of sixteen feathers. The tail feathers are chestnut brown with metallic purplish bars near tips. Both sexes are similar. The male has longer tail, two spurs on legs and yellow iris while the unspurred female's is dark brown.
Range & habitat
An Indonesian endemic, the bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant inhabits to mountain forests of west Sumatra.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
What it does
As with other member in the genus, this elusive bird is shy and very wary. But unlike other peacock-pheasants, it has no ocelli.
Wikipedia: “Behaviour”
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Where it lives
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1183.