One of the 3 pheasants on WAnimals
Birds · Galliformes · Phasianidae
Silver Pheasant
Lophura nycthemera
Least Concern
The species is abundant and widely distributed; it faces no significant short-term risk.
The silver pheasant is one of the most widely kept ornamental birds in the world. The male has a silvery white back and tail finely lined with black, a dark blue belly and intensely red bare facial skin. It lives in montane forest in southern China and the north of South-East Asia, in groups of one male and several females. Its enormous geographical variability has given rise to more than a dozen described subspecies.
Weight
1 kg – 2 kg
Size
70 cm – 1.3 m
Life expectancy
15 years
