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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/

Facts
Classification
Diet
Omnivore 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Living or Extinct
Yes 3
Scientific Name
Polyplectron inopinatum 3
Conservation Status
Near Threatened 2
Comparison
CITES Appendix
Not Listed 4
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Galliformes, Taxa
Source Mountain peacock-pheasant (Wikidata)
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Sources
1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)
2. Mountain peacock-pheasant (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction
    The mountain peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron inopinatum), also known as Rothschild's peacock-pheasant or mirror pheasant, is a medium-sized, up to 65 cm long, blackish brown pheasant. It is with small ocelli, long graduated tail feathers, and both sexes are similar.
  • Infobox: status
    NT
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3. 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.
  • Child Taxon Of: Galliformes, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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4. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Polyplectron inopinatum
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 8372
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 8372
"rank":"SPECIES","name_status":"A","updated_at":"2013-09-27T00:00:00.000Z","active":true,"cites_listing":"NC"
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