It has a golden "crown" on its head . It is dressed in a colorful red shirt and has an elegant posture. It is the prototype of the noble and elegant phoenix in the legend. From a distance, it looks like a dancing flame. People also call it the golden rooster. Its scientific name is Hong. Golden Pheasant is a bird well-known at home and abroad.
Recently, when the staff of the Heihe Provincial Nature Reserve in Longnan, Gansu were sorting out infrared camera data, they discovered multiple images of the golden pheasant, a national second-level protected animal. In the image, initially a young male bird kept approaching. A female bird spreads the feathers on its neck into a fan shape and tries its best to please the female bird, but the female bird remains unmoved.
After a while, another male bird joined the performance, and this male bird seemed to be more experienced. He first circled the female bird to attract the female bird's attention, and at the same time looked for the best performing position, and waited until the female bird saw Come over, it spreads its head as much as possible, and the feathers on its neck, wings, and tail look like fried feathers. In addition, it keeps singing a "love song". The female seems to favor this older male bird more.
The young male seemed unwilling to give up and rushed in front of the older male to compete with him. Then the two male birds raised their necks and circled back and forth, pecking each other on the head, perhaps. It was because they made too much noise, or perhaps because their colors were too ostentatious, that they attracted a goshawk to fly over from the forest. 3 Golden Pheasants had to interrupt their blind date ceremony and they began to fight for their hiding place. Fortunately, the goshawk flew over Didn't stay too long.
The golden pheasant's feathers were slightly messy due to fright. Fortunately, they were all safe and sound. The two male birds continued to "compete" while the female bird watched. The male bird not only pecked with his beak, even flew up and kicked with his feet , and soon the young male bird was in a weak state, beaten to a pulp and fled in defeat.
The older male bird wins. Victory does not mean that he wins the heart of the female bird. It just gets an opportunity to perform alone. This courtship ceremony will last for 1-2 hours. If the female bird is impressed, will leave. Go into the forest and start a family .
The golden pheasant is a polymale family. Usually a male bird will have 2-4 female birds as companions . After entering the breeding season, the male bird will occupy his own territory, and in order to protect the territory, the male bird Fighting behavior often occurs between birds. During courtship, the yellow fleshy wattles under the eyes of the male bird are engorged and swollen with blood, and the colorful shawl feathers are opened like a fan. The tail feathers are like a peacock spreading its wings to show off its figure. Beautiful colorful feathers.
Even though the male golden pheasant is so dazzling, the female bird is very plain and brown in color with black markings all over her body. Even so, it is still pursued by many male birds.
Male birds can only obtain the right to breed if they win the favor of female birds. In fact, the feather color of male birds is not as beautiful as before all year round . After the breeding period, the decorative feathers of male birds will fall off one after another, and new feathers will be replaced. Gradually growing out, before winter arrives, the male bird will complete its moult in preparation for the breeding season in the coming year.
Golden Pheasant mainly feeds on leaves, buds, fruits and seeds of plants. They also eat insects and other animal foods. Delicious and nutritious fungi are also regarded as rare by Golden Pheasant. "Snacks".
Golden pheasant is a national second-level protected animal, also known as golden pheasant, with a body length of 60-100 cm. It is a specialty bird in China and is mainly distributed in Qinghai, Gansu, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi and other places.
