Brown upper body or olive brown; Crown brown, top dark brown; The naked face is small and reddish. The back feather is light, the edge is deep, the flight feather is brown, and the secondary flight feather is covered with black spots; The central tail feather is brown, and the outer tail feather is dark brown, covered with white wavy spots. The lower body is also brown or olive brown, with black moth-shaped spots on the chest and back and dark brown feathers with white spots under the tail. [ 1]
The iris is orange or reddish brown, the corners of the mouth are green and the feet are red. Habitat in subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest below 2000 meters above sea level, in Gaoligong Mountain area of China, mainly in mountain broad-leaved forest at an altitude of 1600-2700 meters. Evergreen broad-leaved forests and valley rainforests with dense forests and sparse undergrowth plants are common, and also appear in mixed coniferous and broadleaved forests and bamboo forests. [ 1]
Living habits
Silver pheasants move in groups of 3-6, sometimes as many as 16- 17 in winter. It consists of a strong male, several adult females, males who are not too strong or too young, and young birds. There is a strict hierarchical relationship within the group. Before the spring season, there will always be fierce battles. At dusk, they perch on branches in the forest. First, they craned their necks to look around, then they flapped their wings and flew to the branches to stop. Sometimes a group lives on the same branch, close to each other, in a straight line, and then flies into the fields one after another the next morning. Alert and timid, she often runs from mountain to mountain when she is frightened. Generally, it rarely takes off, and it will fly up the tree in an emergency. Generally, it flies from the nocturnal tree to the ground after dawn, and there is a climax every morning and afternoon. Activities are mostly in the nest area, and the route, scope and place of daily activities are relatively fixed, and most of the time is spent foraging. After a full meal, I usually stand in the same place to rest or feather, and occasionally fly to the tree to rest. At night, they live in groups in tall trees, and usually start to inhabit them when it is dark. Usually, the female insect comes first and then the male insect, or the male insect and the female insect make sounds together, fly on the branches at a certain height at the same time, and then climb up gradually, hiding under the crown of tall trees, 6-8 meters above the ground. It's quiet and silent when you are active, and sometimes you can hear the sound of rustling when you walk. Usually only when there is danger, the male will make a sharp warning sound of' creaking'. [ 1]
Silver pheasant is omnivorous, mainly feeding on tender leaves, buds, flowers, stems, berries, seeds, roots, moss and other plants such as Castanea henryi, Rubus, passion fruit, among which nuts, cliff beans, fern leaves, banana taro and other plants are the most common. They also eat animal foods, such as needle flies, locusts, ants, earthworms, LEPIDOPTERA insects and larvae, beetles, ants and snails. There are 66 kinds of plants and more than 30 kinds of animals' food types recorded. [ 1]