Grey Peacock-Pheasant
by Eva Lechner
Title
Grey Peacock-Pheasant
Artist
Eva Lechner
Medium
Mixed Media - Mixed Media/artistic Photography/painting
Description
The grey peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron bicalcaratum), also known as Burmese peacock-pheasant, is a large Asian member of the order Galliformes. It is the national bird of Myanmar.
It is a large pheasant, up to 76 cm long and greyish brown with finely spotted green eyespots, an elongated bushy crest, bare pink or yellow facial skin, white throat, and grey iris, bill and legs. The sexes are rather similar, but the female is smaller, darker and less ornamented than the male. The young resemble the female.
The grey peacock-pheasant is distributed in lowland and hill forests of Bangladesh, Northeast India and Southeast Asia, but excluding most of Indochina as well as the entire Malayan Peninsula. The diet consists mainly of seeds, termites, fruits and invertebrates. The female usually lays two eggs.
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May 27th, 2018
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Comments (19)
Heidi Fickinger
This is awesome Eva! What a fantastic portrait that focuses on the magical details of this bird. l/f
Angeles M Pomata
Wow, Eva, this Grey Peacock-pheasant is incredible! Gorgeous capture and treatment. L/F
VIVA Anderson
An amazing creature, and so beautifully presented, artistically.......compliments, fv.VIVA
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