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

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SpeciesGalliformesPhasianidae
Birds

🐔Golden Pheasant

Chrysolophus pictus (Linnaeus, 1758)

紅腹錦雞(學名:Chrysolophus pictus),又名鸞(《說文解字》)、金雞、鷩雉(《爾雅》)、山雞...等,是雉科錦雞屬的一種鳥類。原是中國的特有鳥種。紅腹錦雞並非繁殖力強的物種。在自然界中,牠們每年僅產一窩(約6-12枚卵),且性成熟需2年,雛鳥在野外死亡率極高。19世紀時,歐洲貴族確實將其引入莊園作為裝飾性野禽,但因其肉質不佳,商業狩獵價值低。至今,該物種在英國及歐洲大陸僅存極少數逸出野外的小型族群,並未如部分傳言所稱『迅速擴散』,實際上牠們在野外極為罕見,遠不如同地區成功歸化的環頸雉(Common Pheasant)普遍。在亞洲一些地區被認為就是鳳凰或鸾鸟的现实化身之一。

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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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Facts and figures

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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