Rhizothera longirostris

IUCN

Alias：Rhizothera longirostris，Long-billed Wood Partridge

Basic Information

Scientific classification

name：Rhizothera longirostris
Aliases：Rhizothera longirostris，Long-billed Wood Partridge
Outline：Landfowl
Family：Chickeniformes P.family Partridge

Vital signs

length：About 37 cm
Weight：No textual research information is available
lifetime：No textual research information is available

Feature

Details

Rhizothera longirostris, or Long-billed Wood Partridge, is seriously threatened by habitat degradation and hunting, and an important conservation priority is rediscovery. Birdlife International believes it may have been in rapid decline due to habitat destruction and degradation, and that its taxonomic status should be investigated.

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Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2016 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1: Near Threatened (NT).

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Location

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).

Form

They are 37 cm long. Long strong, black, relatively long downward curved beak. Cheeks, chest and abdomen reddish-brown. The upper body is brown. Male partridge birds show a highly variable gray band throughout the neck and upper chest, and have white spots on the flight feathers. The female has a red underbody.