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Golden Pheasant
Chrysolophus pictus
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About the Golden Pheasant
Golden Pheasant may refer to: Golden pheasant, also known as the Chinese pheasant, species of gamebird from China Golden Pheasant (beer), Slovak beer Golden Pheasant (horse), racehorse Golden Pheasant Award, the highest award given by the Scout Association of Japan Operation Golden Pheasant, 1988 U.S. military operation in Honduras against the Sandinistas
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Chrysolophus pictus
- Family
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies
- Order
- Galliformes
Similar species
Other members of the pheasants, grouse, and allies family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Black Francolin Francolinus francolinus
- Blue-breasted Quail Synoicus chinensis
- Brown Quail Synoicus ypsilophorus
- Chukar Alectoris chukar
- Common Quail Coturnix coturnix
- Dusky Grouse Dendragapus obscurus
- Erckel's Spurfowl Pternistis erckelii
- Gray Francolin Ortygornis pondicerianus
- Gray Partridge Perdix perdix
- Gray Peacock-Pheasant Polyplectron bicalcaratum
- Greater Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus cupido
- Greater Sage-Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus
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