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unusual facts about Palawan Peacock-Pheasant



Bank Hall Estate

The Gamekeeper's Lodge once had aviaries which were used for breeding Pheasants for the shoots held on the estate.

Centrocercus

The noun 'pheasant' was originally applied to a bird that was native to the valley of the Phasis River (now the Rioni River), which is located in Georgia.

In the time of Lewis and Clark the word 'pheasant' stood for "a genus of gallinaceous birds," according to lexicographer Noah Webster (1806), and the explorers often used it in that sense.

Chukar

Chukar Partridge (Alectoris chukar), a Eurasian upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae

Derek Goodwin

Goodwin was also a longtime advocate for the plight of two rare pheasant species—the golden pheasant and the Lady Amherst's Pheasant.

Fly tying

Rabbit, mink, muskrat, fox, bear, squirrel and other furs, deer, elk, moose hair and chicken, pheasant, turkey, duck, goose and partridge feathers were and still are commonly incorporated into artificial flies.

Galliformes

The Lady Amherst's Pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae), Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus), Bulwer's Pheasant and the Crestless Fireback (Lophura erythrophthalma) are notable for their aptitude to forage for crustaceans such as crayfish and other aquatic small animals in shallow streams and amongst rushes in much the same manner as some members of the rail family (Rallidae).

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

Albert Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1835-1919), French zoologist, coined the binomial nomenclature name for the Chinese Monal pheasant, son of Isidore Saint-Hilaire

Hooded Pitta

In the London Zoo, they are kept in a large walk through aviary in the restored Blackburn Pavilion bird house, while at the Durrell Wildlife park they are in a large walk-through exhibit with birds such as Palawan Peacock-Pheasants and White-rumped Shamas.

Hoogerwerf

Hoogerwerf's Pheasant (Lophura hoogerwerfi), also known as Aceh Pheasant

Hoogerwerf's Pheasant

An Indonesian endemic, this little known pheasant inhabits to mid-mountain forests of Gunung Leuser National Park in Aceh province.

Kosmaj

Animals inhabiting the mountain include 50 mammal and 100 bird species, including the more common hares, roes, pheasants, foxes, partridges and quails but also in Serbia rare, Red Listed corn crake and 17 newly discovered species of Sesiidae.

Lake Balkhash

Balkhash is also the habitat of 120 types of bird, including cormorants, Marbled Teal, pheasants, golden eagle and great egret; 12 of those are endangered, including White Pelican, Dalmatian Pelican, spoonbill, whooper and erne.

Peacock-pheasant

The peacock-pheasants are a bird genus, Polyplectron, of the family Phasianidae, consisting of eight species.

Petrel

However, recent research and fossil finds such as Vegavis show that the Galliformes (Pheasants, Grouse and relatives), and Anseriformes (ducks, geese) are still not fully resolved.

Pheasants Forever

The keynote speaker at the inaugural Pheasants Forever banquet was Gov. Rudy Perpich, who later signed the state’s first pheasant stamp bill.

Putteridge Bury

The Putteridge estate is a mixture of arable farmland and woodland; as well as the occasional visiting muntjac and fallow deer, the estate is home to Lady Amherst's Pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae) as well as the more common pheasant.

Reeves's Pheasant

This spectacular pheasant is mentioned in the Guinness World Records 2008 for having the longest natural tail feather of any bird species; a record formerly held by the Crested Argus Pheasant.

Shekhawati painting

In the few surviving 17th century painted buildings some popular Jahangir period (1605–27) subjects such as winged-head cherubs (from Baroque Europe via Goa), hatted Persian angels, the pheasant-like simurgh, cypress trees, lotus bud decoration and the Sufi tale of the lovers Laila and Majnu may be integrated with popular Hindu religious and folk themes.

Silver Pheasant

Once considered a very rare species, the Imperial Pheasant is actually a naturally occurring hybrid between the Silver Pheasant and the Vietnamese Pheasant.

Songs of Green Pheasant

Songs of Green Pheasant is the solo project of Duncan Sumpner, a recording artist and school teacher from Oughtibridge in Sheffield, England.


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