They forage for seeds, flower buds and small insects such as earthworms and termites, mainly in the early morning and late afternoon. Males are dark, iridescent blue while females are more plain and brown in colour. Vietnam pheasants lay four to seven eggs in nest sites on the forest floor – these eggs will be incubated for around three weeks by the female.
Fun fact – Vietnam pheasants use their feet to scratch the ground in search of food items.
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Ecology
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Threats
Herbicides used as chemical weapons during the Vietnam War is killed off the forested areas inhabited by these pheasants and dried out the surrounding forest, making the habitat unsuitable for them. Suitable forests are being converted to paddy fields to support the growing, post-war human population, and poaching has also reduced their population.
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Conservation
Conservation projects have been launched to restore former habitats of the Vietnamese pheasant, including the building of a breeding station in Vietnam. Simultaneously, captive breeding programmes are underway in Europe using the most suitable birds – any revealed to be hybrids by genetic analysis are not included. Nature’s SAFE stores samples in order to increase genetic diversity in future generations.
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