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00 4488 Hühnervogel Edelfasan🐔

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SpeciesGalliformesPhasianidae
Birds

🐔Common Pheasant

Phasianus colchicus Linnaeus, 1758

Fasanen (latin: Phasianus colchicus) er den største, vildtlevende hønsefugl i Danmark og findes i flere varianter, hvoraf ringfasanen er den hyppigst forekommende. Fasanen blev importeret til Danmark fra Asien i 1562 af konger og herremænd som et nyt jagtbytte.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Photos
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Measurements
12
vs you
≈ 1/55th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
1.12 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
27 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common Pheasant

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.12 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 1.09 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Tail length
0.45 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.24 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.04 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.06 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
27 years
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
24 days
AnAge
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 11
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Human Modified
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common Pheasant yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderGalliformes
  5. ›familyPhasianidae
  6. ›genusPhasianus
  7. ›speciesPhasianus colchicus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. superorderGalloanserae
  3. orderGamebirds · Galliformes
  4. genusPhasianus
All 12 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. superorderGalloanserae
  11. orderGamebirds · Galliformes
  12. genusPhasianus
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Closest relative on this site
🐔 Grey Partridge — last shared an ancestor ≈ 16 million years ago.
In other languages
环颈雉 (zh), Bażant zwyczajny (pl), faisán (es), fácán (hu), تدرج مألوف (ar), fasan (sv) … and 26 more languages
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00 4488 Hühnervogel EdelfasanJagdfasan auf Spiekeroog
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