Edwards’s pheasant

Edwards’s pheasant
Lophura edwardsi, Oustalet, 1896

It inhabits eastern mountain slopes of Vietnam at an altitude of up to 600 m above sea level, overgrown with dense forests, where the amount of sunshine is limited. For a number of decades, Edwards’s pheasant was considered to be extinct, but in the year 2000 it was rediscovered in the forests of Central Vietnam. European zoological gardens are implementing the European Endangered Species Programme (EEP) for this pheasant as a part of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA).
Distribution: Middle Vietnam

male
body length: ca. 65 cm
wing length: 22–24 cm
body mass: ca. 1,42 kg
female
body length: ca. 58 cm
wing length: 21–22 cm
body mass: ca. 1,05 kg