🐔Golden Pheasant
금계(金鷄, 학명: Chrysolophus pictus)는 닭목 꿩과에 속하는 새이다. 영어명은 Golden Pheasant이다. 서부 중국의 삼림지대가 원산지이다. 다 큰 수컷의 길이는 꼬리깃을 포함해서 90 ~ 105cm이며 꼬리깃이 전체 길이의 2/3 이상을 차지한다. 수컷은 붉은 색이 섞인 금색의 볏이 있다. 얼굴, 목, 뺨 등은 갈색이며 턱볏은 노란색이다. 등 위쪽은 녹색이며 나머지 부분과 엉덩이 쪽은 금색을 띤다. 붉은색의 가슴깃털이 나 있고 다리와 발은 진한 노란색이다. 암컷은 어두운 갈색을 띤다. 울음소리는 금속성을 띄며 번식철에만 "꽥! 짹!' 운다. 번식철엔 암컷을 공격할 수도 있다. 평균 8 ~ 12개의 알을 낳으며 부화 기간은 약 22일이다. 비슷한 새로는 은계와 백한이 있다.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 0.56 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 13 years
Everything we know about the Golden Pheasant
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.56 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Male725 kgWikidataQ335113
- Female525 kgWikidataQ335113
Figures vary
- 0.63 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: questionable
Tail length0.51 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.18 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.03 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.07 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan13 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: questionable
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Gestation22 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 10AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelHerbivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatForestAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.6 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Golden Pheasant yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderGalliformes
- ›familyPhasianidae
- ›genusChrysolophus
- ›speciesChrysolophus pictus
- classBirds · Aves
- superorderGalloanserae
- orderGamebirds · Galliformes
- genusChrysolophus
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- superorderGalloanserae
- orderGamebirds · Galliformes
- genusChrysolophus
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