Endangered
Hainan Peacock Pheasant
Polyplectron katsumatae
The Hainan peacock-pheasant is an endangered bird that belongs to the pheasant family Phasianidae.
Appearance
The bird was long considered a subspecies of grey peacock-pheasant or Polyplectron bicalcaratum. It has red facial skin as opposed to grey in the yellow-orange facial skin of the grey peacock-pheasant. Beebe (1922) noted various plumage differences between the two and considered them separate species.
Range and habitat
This extremely rare species is endemic to the island of Hainan, China.
Taking more conservation action immediately to protect this endangered island endemic is imperative.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
The Hainan peacock-pheasant is an endangered bird that belongs to the pheasant family Phasianidae. Due to a very low population density in tropical forest and declining population, it is now becoming severely endangered and should be regarded as the rarest species in the order Galliformes in China.
Hainan Peacock Pheasant is 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 Hainan Peacock Pheasant, Wikidata item Q2193519. 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.
