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Lophura bulweri

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Lophura bulweri Life habits and morphological characteristics

The main pheasant is a blue face, black body, red PAWS, and white tail. Among other things, its tail unfolds in a very different way from other birds, it is upright. Males can grow to nearly a meter in length. Although the male bird is called "squameless", the most striking feature is not the broken blue dot on the back, but the flawless white tail feathers and the strange jewel-blue face. The blue bulge on his face looks like he's wearing a mask. In fact, squameless pheasants' heads look similar to those of other pheasants, and the long blue stripes on either side of their faces are lock-like skin.

Lophura bulweri Distribution range and habitat

It is distributed in the Pacific Islands (including Taiwan Province of China, Dongsha Islands, Xisha Islands, Zhongsha Islands, Nansha Islands, and the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia's Sumatra, Java Island, and Papua New Guinea).
It lives mainly in the upland rainforest.

Lophura bulweri Detailed Introduction

Lophura bulweri, also known as Bulwer's Pheasant, is a pheasant native to Borneo Island.

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A small flock of three to six individuals, usually alone or in pairs. In winter, there are sometimes as many as 16-17 clusters. Especially in the early morning or evening the most active, poor activity at noon, night more perches in trees. Activities often strut, act alert, run quickly after fright, crest stands, tail feathers show slightly, to run to a certain distance and then alert to observe the trend, sometimes stop and go, look around. In addition to walking and running on the ground, Blue Pheasant can also fly and jump. The wings are flapped as an aid when jumping, but sometimes they are not extended. Move your head back and forth and drop your tail slightly. There is usually no inherent territory and range of activity, and no territorial sexuality, even during reproduction.

Squameless alert, timid and afraid of people, when frightened, most from the mountain to the mountain running. Generally rarely take off, but also fly up the tree in an emergency. It usually flies from the night dwelling tree to the ground after the dawn. After eating, they usually stand in place to rest or trim feathers, and occasionally fly to a tree to rest. They live in groups in high trees at night, and generally start to roost in trees when it is dark.

The breeding season is April-May. In mid-to-late March, male birds begin to estrus, a male polygynosis, and males often fight for mates. Male bird courtship show for the side, usually from the female bird right back direction of the front left circle, when to the female bird side and the female bird parallel or close to parallel, the male bird constantly left and right swing tail, slow and large movement, and then continue to move forward, around the female bird head from the right, after each circle will be 2-3 meters away from the female bird standing still, 1-2 minutes later and repeat once. Each estrus show off, you can repeat the circle 6-7 times. Sometimes the male bird also does a rapid continuous squat, stand up action or stretch both wings for a high frequency, small amplitude of intense wing action, called "Peng".

Swinhoe's nest is found in a hollow in the ground or in grass between underwoods and shrubs. The nest is relatively simple, consisting mainly of dead grass, leaves, pine needles and feathers. Each clutch lays 4-8 eggs. Usually every 1 day 1 eggs, eggs are produced after the start of incubation, incubation period of 24-25 days. Young birds have sex early and can leave the nest with their parents on the day they hatch.


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