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Green pheasant 20230220 153441🐔

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SpeciesGalliformesPhasianidae
Birds

🐔Green Pheasant

Phasianus versicolor Vieillot, 1825

綠雉（學名：Phasianus versicolor），是一種棲息在日本列岛的雞形目雉科鳥類，為日本國鳥，同時也是日本的特有種，其种加词“versicolor”意为“变色的”、“颜色多样的”。 綠雉廣泛分佈於日本的低地和沼澤地之中，除了作為日本全國的國鳥以外，也是日本很多自治體的市鳥、町鳥、村鳥。一些鳥類分類學者把綠雉列為環頸雉 （P. colchicus）的亞種（P. colchicus versicolor）。

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≈ 1/68th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.92 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Green Pheasant

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

By sex

  • Male1.15 kgWikidataQ425900
  • Female830 kgWikidataQ425900
Tail length
0.29 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.22 m
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Beak length
0.03 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

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

Habitat
Human Modified
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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
0.9 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 Green Pheasant yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderGalliformes
  5. ›familyPhasianidae
  6. ›genusPhasianus
  7. ›speciesPhasianus versicolor
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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キジ (ja), faisà verd (ca), bažant zelený (cs), Grøn Fasan (da), Buntfasan (de), faisán verde (es) … and 24 more languages
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