page_title: Swinhoe's pheasant
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Swinhoe's pheasant / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: A male Swinhoe's Pheasant with wattles engorged. Cropped with some sharpening adjustment. Photographed at Dasyueshan National Forest Recreation Area in Taichung County, Taiwan
context_page_description: Swinhoe's pheasant, also known as the Taiwan blue pheasant, is a bird of the pheasant subfamily in the fowl family Phasianidae. It is endemic to Taiwan. Along with the Mikado pheasant and Taiwan blue magpie, two other Taiwan endemics, the Swinhoe's pheasant is sometimes considered an unofficial national symbol for Taiwan as it bears the colours of the national flag.
context_section_description: The male Swinhoe's pheasant can grow up to 79 cm. He has a glossy blue-purple chest, belly and rump, white nape, red wattles, white tail feathers, and a white crest. The female is brown marked with yellow arrow-shaped spots and complex barring patterns, and has maroon outer rectrices. The juvenile male is dark blue with brown and yellow patterns on its wings. Swinhoe's pheasants can also be distinguished from the Mikado pheasant by having red legs.
  During display, the male's wattles become engorged and he performs a display consisting of a hop followed by running in a circle around females. A frontal display with the tail fanned is occasionally observed. He also does a wing-whirring display like other Lophura pheasants.
caption: Male Swinhoe's pheasant with wattles fully engorged for display
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