the silver-pheasant lives in the mountains Südostasiens, from the Himalaya as far as to southeast-China. High mountain ranges separate the type in over 20 part-populations, that differ strongly in the coloring from time to time.
The here described Nominatform, the South-Chinese silver-pheasant, probably also is bigger and white and color-like more beautiful than the other 14 subtypes.
Cock: Total-length: 110-140cm, from it tail-length about. 70cm
Hen: Total-length: 60-75cm, from it tail-length about. 35cm
The plumage-coloring of the cock admittedly consists only of two colors: from white and black. Nevertheless, it is a magnificent appearance in connection with the bare, shining-red face and the crimson runs.
Azure-black is the entire underside of the throat up to the sub-tail, as well the bonnet falling big in the neck. The upper side is knows and works silvery on backs, wings and outside-flags of the tail through the black Linierung and Strichelzeichnung. The hen is olivbraun with light feather-shafts and speckle-drawing largely.
South-China, the provinces Kwangtung and Kwangsi as well as the adjoining Vietnam are the home of the silver-pheasant as far as to the red river. In mountain, and foothill-forests with dense shrub, and fern-vegetation has its brood-precincts it. it is polygamously alive (in increase-marriage, and outside the incubation in troops. This to the one very ornamental, to the other to it still weather-hard silver-pheasant is little shy and without special claims at the attitude and, to therefore recommend each beginner in the ornament-poultry-attitude. Besides in enclosures it lets himself hold well in the neutral.
Often fails at the pugnacity of the cock a team spirit with other hen-birds. it shall tothacken also small-birds and consumes, how already reports became. Therefore no experiments!
The Volierenbepflanzung often is damaged by suppressed strongly. Silver-pheasants don't require any from-pleasing food, they get standard-feed. In the Balzzeit, that takes place approximately from March to May, the cock frequently leaves, usually early in the morning, its precinct-ad - reputations hears. they became as trilling or quacking, melodic whistles described, that usually itself a loud one "radaradaradaduik duik - duk "connects. This is performs courtship display a relatively simple Seitenbalz with angeschwollenden's high-red face-rags, that swell so, that they jut out over the head above and below gills, that similarly that of a house-cock, forms. Often, the belligerent cock then attacks also the keeper. One can join the cock 2 - 3 hens. Silver-pheasant-hens usually are good breeders and lead its chicks excellently. Often, they achieve also good wetnurse-services, in that erbrüten it the chicks of other types. The nest, normally 6, 8 rosily, isabellfarbene eggs, in the aviary also 15 or more, becomes in 25 days of erbrütet. The chicks are fast-growing and robust and, to come up easily. In the age of 6 weeks the sexes let themselves distinguish. With the cocks, the tail-blankets then are roughly patterned, with the hens however fine-gray gespenkelt. The Umfärbung comes after a Teilumfärbung in the first year into the splendor-dress in the autumn of the second year of life. In the spring after it, they are fully breeding-capable.
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