Critically Endangered
Crestless Fireback
Lophura erythrophthalma
Crestless Fireback is a bird in the family Phasianidae (order Galliformes) — Lophura erythrophthalma, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The face has bare red skin, the bill is greenish in males and black in females, there is no crest, the legs are bluish-grey, with long spurs in males and short spurs in females. The tail is short and either rounded, or the central feathers are shorter than the outer ones. The male has purplish-black plumage, with white vermiculation on the mantle and back, the wings and the side of the breast.
Male crestless firebacks are about 38 cm (15 in) in length and females slightly smaller.
Range and habitat
The Malayan crestless fireback is found in mainland Malaysia and Sumatra while pyronota occurs in Borneo. The crestless firebacks are shy birds and seldom seen. They inhabit undergrowth in lowland rainforests, and also secondary growth forest in Malaysia, up to altitudes of about 300 m (1,000 ft). Their natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
The breeding season is from April to June and the gestation period lasts 24 days.
In crisis
Crestless Fireback is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Crestless Fireback, Wikidata item Q899732. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
