Hoogerwerf's pheasant
| Hoogerwerf's pheasant | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Phasianidae |
| Genus: | Lophura |
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| Subspecies: | L. i. hoogerwerfi
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| Trinomial name | |
| Lophura inornata hoogerwerfi (Chasen, 1939)
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Hoogerwerf's pheasant (Lophura inornata hoogerwerfi), also known as the Aceh pheasant or Sumatran pheasant is a medium-sized, up to 55 centimetres (22 in) long, bird of the family Phasianidae. The name commemorates the Dutch ornithologist and taxidermist Andries Hoogerwerf. It is usually considered as a subspecies of the Salvadori's pheasant.[1]
Description
[edit]Males are a crestless bluish-black pheasant with bare red facial skin, short tail and grey legs. Its appearance resembles Salvadori's pheasant, with the male indistinguishable in the field.[2] The female is a rufous brown bird with a dark bluish grey legs and short dark tail, and differs from Savadori's pheasant females for having darker brown, plainer plumage lacking buff mottling.
Distribution and habitat
[edit]An Indonesian endemic, this little-known pheasant inhabits to mid-mountain forests of Gunung Leuser National Park in Aceh province. Previously known only from two female specimens, it was recently discovered in a market in Medan, North Sumatra.
References
[edit]- ^ "Lophura [inornata or hoogerwerfi] (Salvadori's or Sumatran Pheasant) - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ Sozer, R.; Shepherd, C.R.; Daijono, M.J. (2006). "First description of male Hoogerwerf's Pheasant Lophura (inornata) hoogerwerfi (Chasen, 1939), with notes on distribution". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 126 (3): 207–211.