Blood pheasant | 台北市立動物園資訊網

Thebloodpheasant(Ithaginiscruentus),alsoknownasbloodpartridge,istheonlyspeciesingenusIthaginisofthepheasantfamily.Itisarelativelysmall, ...

Species of bird

The blood pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus) or blood partridge is a galliforme bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae and the only species in the genus Ithaginis. It is a relatively small, short-tailed pheasant that is widespread in the lower Himalayas ranging across North and East India, Nepal, Bhutan, South China and northern Myanmar. It has been classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2009, and the global blood pheasant population is thought to be stable.[1]

The blood pheasant is the state bird of Sikkim, India.[2]

The blood pheasant has the size of a small fowl, about 17 in (43 cm) in length with a short, convex, very strong black bill, feathered between bill and eye, and a small crest of variously coloured feathers. The colour of the plumage above is dark ash, with white shafts, the coverts of the wings various tinged with green, with broad strokes of white through the length of each feather, the feathers...