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Bulwer's pheasant

The male can be considered one of the most spectacular pheasants.

Its most notable features are arguably the bright blue facial wattles that can grow to several centimeters during its courtship period. Description: The Male has wattles on the extremely developed face, the upper lobe, near the nape, and the lower lobe, near the corner of the beak, when they are distended during the parade, form two pendants curved like rigid ribbons of some 180 mm long.

These wattles are light blue, with a black spot at the upper end of the two long lobes and a red circle around the eye.

 Normally, they are contracted just like the horns and the flap of the Tracopans, and resemble those of the other "Lophura" the tips of the lobes being only a little more visible.

 No crest, head and upper neck are black with blue reflections, chin and throat are dull black and sparsely feathered. The foreneck and upper breast are shimmering maroon-red, the feathers decomposed, with a thin blue border.

General habits and life in captivity:

Before the observations made by William Beebe, nothing was known about the life of this pheasant. He found it quite widely distributed in the forests of Sarawak » Sarawak constitute the last virgin forest of Borneo. It too is affected by massive deforestation: thousand-year-old trees are felled in large quantities. »

This Pheasant is particularly quiet.

 This wonderful species was discovered in 1874, and the first living specimen to reach Europe was a female who arrived in Amsterdam in 1876, she only survived a few weeks. No further specimens were imported until William Goodfellow brought a pair and a young male back to England in November 1929. After two years the old rooster died and the remaining couple came to Clères to live there for another two years. Another rooster arrived in 1930 at the Berlin Zoo afterwards. By their shape and habits, Bulwer's Pheasants are reminiscent of Prelate Pheasants. Like them they have long, slender legs