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Mountain peacock-pheasant

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The mountain peacock-pheasant, also known as Rothschild peacock-pheasant or the mirror pheasant, is a medium-sized blackish-brown pheasant reaching up to 65 centimeters in length, marked with small eye-like ocelli and long, graduated tail feathers. The male carries metallic blue ocelli on its upperparts, green ocelli across a twenty-feather tail, and two spurs on each leg. The female is smaller and duller, with black ocelli on the upperparts, unspurred legs, and an eighteen-feather tail. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Classification
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 1
Living or Extinct
Yes 2
Scientific Name
Polyplectron inopinatum 2
Conservation Status
Near Threatened 1
Sources
1. Mountain peacock-pheasant (Wikipedia)
  • System/realm (stated plainly in the entity own recorded description)
    The mountain peacock-pheasant, also known as Rothschild peacock-pheasant or the mirror pheasant, is a medium-sized blackish-brown pheasant reaching up to 65 centimeters in length, marked with small eye-like ocelli and long, graduated tail feathers.
  • Speciesbox infobox, conservation status parameter
    status = NT
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2. Mountain peacock-pheasant (Wikidata)
Wikidata
  • Wikidata Q117686 (P225 taxon name)
  • Statements section, conservation status (P141)
    IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): near threatened.
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