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SpeciesGalliformesPhasianidae
Birds

🐔Common Pheasant

Phasianus colchicus Linnaeus, 1758

雉鸡（学名：Phasianus colchicus）又名环颈雉，俗稱野鸡、華蟲，是雉科雉属的鳥類。雄性雉鸡的羽毛非常多樣，從幾乎白色到幾乎黑色都有，這是由於馴化及與綠雉雜交，加上放生不同的亞種雜交的結果；雌鳥則維持棕色、灰色的樣子，在各個大陸的外貌差別不大。目前的地球上，在東亞、歐洲、北美、澳洲均有雉鸡的大量分佈，並且經常混血，所以沒有一個特定的分類。

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

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

Tarsus length
0.06 m
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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
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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
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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. 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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