Salvadoran Pheasant
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Rooster of the Salvadoran Pheasant in Antwerp Zoo |
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| ( Salvadori , 1879) |
The Salvadori's Pheasant ( Lophura inornata ) is a Hühnervogel art from the family of pheasant-like , in dense, inaccessible mountain forests in the southern half of Sumatra endemic is. It is a relatively inconspicuous colored, short-tailed pheasant whose way of life is little known. Since the species is threatened by hunting, trapping and the fragmentation of its habitats through logging and land use in the stock, it is classified as endangered (“vulnerable”) by the IUCN .
Some authors of the endemic in the northern part of Sumatra is Sumatra pheasant regarded as a subspecies of Salvadorifasans.
description
The rooster of this rather monochrome and short-tailed species reaches a body length of 46 to 55 cm, of which 16–16.5 cm is the tail. The wing length is 220-230 mm. The body plumage is predominantly black and, apart from the matt black lower abdomen and tail, broadly lined with a blue metallic sheen. The eye region is red without feather. The eye, the iris of which is orange, is surrounded by a light greenish ring. The beak is whitish horn-colored, the feet greenish gray.
The plumage of the hen is for the most part vivid chestnut brown. It looks speckled to flaky, as the middle part of the feathers shows a warm beige, darkly speckled longitudinal stripe and a light shaft. The throat is a little lighter brown, the tail black-brown. The hen also has a red face with a light ring under the eyes. The iris is orange to brown.
voice
Cackling series of calls are described for the species.
Distribution and existence
The Salvadoran pheasant is endemic to Sumatra, where it occurs in the central and southern part of the Barisan Mountains at altitudes between 600 and 2400 m. At least ten occurrences are known, there is current evidence of three of these occurrences. During surveys in the 1990s and the years after the turn of the millennium, the species were regularly found on Gunung Kaba and Gunung Kerinci in the Kerinchi-Seblat National Park . Evidence of camera traps exists from the Barisan Selatan National Park .
The population is estimated at less than 10,000 animals. Since the species is hunted and its habitats are threatened in the long term by increasing land use and logging, it is classified as endangered (“vulnerable”).
Way of life
The Salvadoran pheasant lives in humid mountain forests in lower elevations, and it may also occur at higher altitudes. Most of the observations come from heights of around 800 m. It prefers untouched primary forests, but also seems to occur in secondary succession stages.
The clutch consists of 2 matt chocolate brown eggs measuring 51 × 37 mm and is incubated for 22 days.
literature
- Heinz-Sigurd Raethel : Chicken birds of the world. Verlag J. Neumann-Neudamm GmbH & Co. KG, Melsungen 1988, ISBN 3-7888-0440-8 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Lophura inornata in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2004. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed on 5 October of 2010.
- BirdLife International: Species Factsheet - Lophura inornata . Retrieved October 5, 2010.
- Videos, photos and sound recordings of Lophura inornata in the Internet Bird Collection
- Photos of Lophura inornata in the Oriental Bird Club image database , accessed October 5, 2010