Alias:Polyplectron katsumatae,Hainan Peacock-pheasant
Outline:Landfowl
Family:Chickeniformes P.family Pheasant
length:33-70cm
Weight:456-710g
Life:No textual research information is available
IUCN:LC
Hainan Peacock pheasant has no subspecies.
Hainanese pheasants often move alone or in pairs, and will flee if disturbed. It rarely rises to the top of the tree and burrows into the dense branches. They perch on branches at night. Travel alone or in pairs, forage on the ground and spend the night in the trees. The peacock pheasant takes animal food as its main food, and eats almost all insects and worms, which is rare among pheasants. The male bird's call is loud and pleasant, and it will emit a guang-gui, guang-gui two one-degree calls, the first one is longer. The female makes a fast call called ga.ga.ga.
Hainan peacock pheasant begins to breed from late February to early March. More nesting in dense forest gully land and mountain farmland near the secondary forest, the nest in the natural concave ground. Breeding in March to May, laying 2-5 eggs per nest, incubation period of 21 days.
In 2004, the Hainan Provincial Forestry Bureau, Hainan Normal University and Beijing Normal University jointly studied through DNA sequencing and molecular genetic markers, and found that the genetic distance between Hainan peacock pheasant and gray peacock pheasant was 3.1%, which exceeded the range of genetic distance between bird species and species level, and should be independent species. According to a paper published in Zoological Science (Zoological Science) in 2008, after a long period of independent evolution, the genetic distance between Hainan peacock pheasant and gray peacock pheasant has become wider and wider in the past millions of years, and about 4.4 to 6 million years ago, it diverged into an independent species.
The Hainanese Peacock pheasant is a very rare species of chicken. Due to the destruction of secondary deciduous monsoon rainforest and evergreen monsoon rainforest habitats, its distribution area is rapidly disappearing and retreating. A common predator is the weasel, while daytime birds of prey also kill peacock pheasants. Human hunting poses a great threat to the peacock pheasant, which is already in a very endangered situation.
Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN) in 2016 ver 3.1 - Endangered (EN).
Listed in China's "National Key Protected Wildlife List" (February 5, 2021).
On April 23, 2022, it was selected into the list of priority protected species of Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park.
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