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By –Vinuri Randula Silva
The gray peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron
bicalcaratum), also known as Burmese peacock-pheasant, is a
large Asian member of the order Galliformes.
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. . Both sexes are gray-brown with iridescent spotting on the
wings, but the male has a longer tail and a bushy, forward-arching crest.
Display involves opening up the tail and spreading the wings to flash their
iridescent peacock-like spots. Song, a series of ascending hoarse croaks, can
often be heard in the morning.
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. Widespread throughout its large range, the grey
peacock-pheasant is evaluated as a Species of Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on CITES Appendix II, restricting trade in wild-caught birds to preserve its
stocks.
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