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It is a medium-sized, up to 70 cm long pheasant with a peacock-like dark crest, bluish black plumage, reddish brown rump, black outer tail feathers, red iris and bare blue facial skin. The female is a brown bird with short crest, blue facial skin and spotted black-and-white below. It is distinguished from the Bornean crested fireback by its white central tail feathers, red legs and bluish black streaked white below.
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When to see the Malayan Crested Fireback
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Malayan Crested Fireback
The map shades 4 countries with regular records, and 3 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in China, Singapore, United States.
About the Malayan Crested Fireback
The Malayan crested fireback or Malay crested fireback is a species of forest pheasant found in lowland forests of the Thai-Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.
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Easily confused with
Bornean Crestless FirebackLophura pyronotaThe Bornean crestless fireback is a member of the Phasianidae.
Malayan Crestless FirebackLophura erythrophthalmaThe Malayan crestless fireback or Malay crestless fireback is a member of the family Phasianidae.
Salvadori's PheasantLophura inornataThe male and female Salvadori's pheasant are quite unlike each other in appearance, and in fact the male bird is very similar to the female crestless fireback (Lophura erythrophthalma).
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