A male Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus) showing its colorful plumage🐔

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SpeciesGalliformesPhasianidae
Birds

🐔Golden Pheasant

Chrysolophus pictus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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
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Everything we know about the Golden Pheasant

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

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

By sex

  • Male725 kgWikidataQ335113
  • Female525 kgWikidataQ335113

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
13 years
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data quality: questionable

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

Gestation
22 days
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data quality: questionable

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

Litter size
about 10
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data quality: questionable

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

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

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

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

Volume l
0.6 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 Golden 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. ›genusChrysolophus
  7. ›speciesChrysolophus pictus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. superorderGalloanserae
  3. orderGamebirds · Galliformes
  4. genusChrysolophus
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  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. genusChrysolophus
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