white eared pheasant

Szechuan white eared pheasants have now become a vulnerable species.

It is a subspecies of white eared pheasant.

Like these species, the white eared pheasant lacks a prominent trailing wing notch.

Crossoptilon crossoptilon (white eared pheasant)

White eared pheasants tend to fly a great deal more than their close relatives, the brown eared and blue eared pheasants.

The Szechuan white eared pheasant will not mate until it is two years old, then it will go into a heated breeding frenzy around the end of April.

In winter, white eared pheasants subsist on pine needles, juniper berries, wolf berries, and the desiccated seed pods of iris, lily and allium.

The Szechuan white eared pheasant, Crossoptilon crossoptilon crossoptilon, is a galliform bird native to the Szechuan region of China.

While all known forms of white eared pheasants are very similar in phenotype, there are behavioral and genetic differences which suggest that there is much to learn about their systematics and behavioral ecology.

White eared pheasants (Crossoptilon crossoptilon) are a species of "eared pheasants" and get their name because they are white and have the prominent ear tufts of the genus, not because they have white ears.

Peafowl, the crested kalij, Lady Amherst, Siamese fireback, western tragopan, blue eared pheasant, brown eared pheasant, white eared pheasant, ring-necked pheasant, cheer pheasant, and the Himalayan monal are just some of the species housed by the pheasantry that are explored in the documentary.

The name Crossoptilon is a combination of the Greek words krossoi, meaning "fringe" and ptilon, meaning "feather"- a name Hodgson felt particularly applied to the white eared pheasant "distinguished amongst all its congeners by its ample fringe-like plumage, the dishevelled quality of which is communicated even to the central tail feathers".

This bird is predominantly white, including, as its name suggests, white ears, but is not as white in as many places of its body as its close relatives the Tibetan white eared pheasant, C. c. drouyni, and the Yunnan white eared pheasant, C. c. lichiangnse.