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Tibetan Eared Pheasant (Crossoptilon harmani)

Tibetan Eared Pheasant (Crossoptilon harmani)
Deer Forest2, 14 May 2014
    • FBBird
      Tibetan Eared Pheasant...

      I always thought this was Crossotilon crossoptilon harmani, a race of the White Eared Pheasant, although as 'blue' as the Blue Eared (C. auritum). Have the taxonomists 'created' a fourth species of Eared Pheasant? (The third of course being Brown Eared (C. mantchuricum).
      14 May 2014
    • vogelcommando
      The Tibetan Eared Pheasant is already for a longer time considered a seperate species by a number of scientists.
      14 May 2014
    • threeple61
      I think there are size differences along with the ear differences, much smaller than C.auritum. I personally agree with this change, even if it does seem the phasanidae is now far more speciose than when I was learning about them!
      14 May 2014
    • Chlidonias
      yes they have been split for quite a while now. Originally of course this was a subspecies of the white eared but they are very different in colour and lack the prominent "ears". I recently read somewhere (I think) that Jersey Zoo's white eared pheasants back in the 60s/70s were actually this species and not the regular white eared pheasants.
      14 May 2014
    • Nanook
      I know what you mean about those original Jersey "White-eared", I can`t think of their name, but I don`t think they were this species pictured.
      15 May 2014
    • vogelcommando
      I agree with Nanook, all the picture I've seen from Jersey were "real" White eared pheasants and also the young they send later to other collections were all real white.
      15 May 2014
    • Chlidonias
      I finally remembered to check back on this. The place I thought I had read it was here Jersey Zoo: Birds - The Bartlett Society but I was just remembering the common name used (Tibetan white eared pheasant). The subspecies given is actually C. c. drouyni.
      21 Jul 2014
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