Syrmaticus
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The genus Syrmaticus contains the five species of long-tailed pheasants. The males have short spurs and usually red facial wattles, but otherwise differ wildly in appearance. The hens and chicks of al
Syrmaticus humiae
At first glance, the copper pheasant (S. soemmerringii) resembles a female common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
Male Reeves's pheasants (S. reevesi) are unmistakable in appearance (tail is abraded)
The rare Mikado pheasant (S. mikado) has much eumelanin in its male plumage, but otherwise hardly differs from its closest relatives
Copper pheasant
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The copper pheasant, also known as Soemmerring's pheasant or yamadori, is a pheasant endemic to the Japanese archipelago. The scientific name commemorates the German scientist Samuel Thomas von Sömmer
Syrmaticus
…the hills and lowlands of eastern Indochina and southeastern China. Around the Miocene-Pliocene boundary, roughly 5.4 mya or so, the ancestors of the copper pheasant (S. soemmerringii) separated from the mainland lineage and probably settled Japan at that time or soon thereafter. Perhaps the white wing-band was…
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Illustration from John Gould's Birds of Asia
Juvenile Syrmaticus soemmerringii ssp. subrufus