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Mrs. Hume's Pheasant

Conservation status

Near Threatened

Population Trend

Decreasing

Alternate Names

Hume's Pheasant, Bar-tailed Pheasant

Native Habitat

Forests

Diet

Vegetable matter

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Mrs. Hume's Pheasant

Syrmaticus humiae

Mrs. Hume's pheasant is a large forest pheasant with a greyish brown head, bare red facial skin, chestnut brown plumage, yellowish bill, brownish orange iris, white wingbars and metallic blue neck feathers. The male has a long greyish white, barred black and brown tail. The female is a chestnut brown bird with whitish throat, buff color belly and white-tipped tail.

Regional Names
  • Bengali:
    কাঠমৌর
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Taxanomy

GALLIFORMES
PHASIANIDAE
Syrmaticus humiae

Quick Facts
  • It is a state bird of Manipur and Mizoram.