Germain's Peacock Pheasant
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| ?Germain's Peacock Pheasant Conservation status: Near threatened |
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| Polyplectron germaini Elliot, 1866 |
The Germain's Peacock Pheasant, Polyplectron germaini is a medium-sized, up to 60cm long, brownish dark pheasant with finely spotted buff, short crest, bare red facial skin, brown iris and purplish blue ocelli on upperbody plumage and half of its tail of twenty feathers. Both sexes are similar. The female has eighteen tail feathers and is smaller than male.
The Germain's Peacock Pheasant is endemic to southern Indochina. It is found in semi-evergreen dry forests of southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. The female lays two creamy white eggs.
The name commemorates the French colonial army's veterinary surgeon Louis Rodolphe Germain.
Due to limited range and ongoing habitat lost, the Germain's Peacock Pheasant is evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES.
[edit] References
- BirdLife International (2004). Polyplectron germaini. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 1 November 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is near threatened
