Blue eared pheasant

Blue eared pheasant
In Songpan County, Sichuan, China
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Crossoptilon
Species:
C. auritum
Binomial name
Crossoptilon auritum
(Pallas, 1811)

The blue eared pheasant (Crossoptilon auritum), also sometimes hyphenated as blue eared-pheasant, is a large pheasant endemic to China. Although it is considered rare, the blue eared pheasant is evaluated as of least concern.

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