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Gray Peacock-Pheasant
Polyplectron bicalcaratum
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About the Gray Peacock-Pheasant
The grey peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron bicalcaratum), also known as Burmese peacock-pheasant, is a large Asian member of the order Galliformes.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Polyplectron bicalcaratum
- 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
- Golden Pheasant Chrysolophus pictus
- Gray Francolin Ortygornis pondicerianus
- Gray Partridge Perdix perdix
- Greater Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus cupido
- Greater Sage-Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus
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