Pheasants are second grade protected animals. There are 30 subspecies of pheasants***. The body size is slightly smaller than the domestic chicken, but the tail is much longer. Males and females have different plumage colors, the males have gorgeous plumage with metallic reflections, each side of the head has a bunch of ear feather clusters that can be towered up and the feather ends are square, and the lower back and waist feathers are draped around the edges of the feathers like hair.

The wings are slightly short and rounded, the tail feathers are 18, the tail is long and gradually become pointed, the central tail feathers are much longer than the outer tail feathers, the male tail feathers are separated from the edge of the feathers like hair; the male has a short and sharp distance on the tarsus and metatarsus, which is a weapon for fighting and attacking, and in recent years, it is also found that the distance's length is obviously related to the number of the mates it possesses, and it is an important criterion of choosing the mate for the female bird.

Life habits of pheasants

Pheasants are strong-footed and good at running, especially in thickets, and are also good at hiding. After seeing people generally in the ground running fast, quickly into the nearby jungle or scrub, sometimes running for a while also stop to look and then go. Only in the last resort to take off, fly while making cackling calls and two wings fluttering drumming sound.

Flying speed is faster, but also very powerful, but the general flight is not long-lasting, flight distance is not large, often parabolic flight, gliding before landing, landing and then quickly in the bushes and bushes running and hiding, easy to no longer take off, and sometimes people walk to the eye and then suddenly fly, often integrated into a few fall to more than 10 small groups into the farmland, the edge of the forest and the village near the activities and foraging.

Omnivorous. The food it eats varies with the region and the season: it mainly feeds on the fruits, seeds, plant leaves, buds, grass seeds and some insects of various plants in the fall, the shoots, shoots, grass stems, fruits, seeds and grains of various plants in the winter, and insects and other small invertebrates as well as the shoots, berries and grass seeds of some plants in the summer.