About the Bornean Peacock-Pheasant
The Bornean peacock-pheasant is a medium-sized pheasant. It is probably the rarest and certainly the least known of all peacock-pheasants. This elusive bird is endemic to lowland forests of Borneo.
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The pheasant is up to 50 cm long, rufous brown and black spotted, with an elongated crest and nape feathers, black below and bare red skin around bluish iris eye. The breast sides are metallic blue-green, bordering the white throat and central upper breast. Its twenty-two tail feathers are decorated with large blue-green ocelli, which may be spread fan-like in display. The female is smaller and duller brown than the male. It has a brown iris and no spurs on its feet.
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Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in October · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Hainan Peacock-PheasantPolyplectron katsumataeThe bird was long considered a subspecies of grey peacock-pheasant or Polyplectron bicalcaratum.
Palawan Peacock-PheasantPolyplectron napoleonisThe adult male is the most peacock-like member of the genus Polyplectron in appearance.
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