Grey Peacock-Pheasant

Other names
The Grey Peacock-Pheasant (Polyplectron bicalcaratum) is also known as Burmese Peacock-Pheasant.

Desciption
It is a large pheasant, up to 76 cm long and greyish brown with finely spotted green eyespots, an elongated bushy crest, bare pink or yellow facial skin, white throat, and grey iris, bill and legs. The sexes are rather similar, but the female is smaller, darker and less ornamented than the male. The young resemble the female.

Sub-Species
Three subspecies are recognized today as good, while an additional one is of unclear validity:
 * P. b. bicalcaratum Linnaeus, 1758 – Common Grey Peacock-Pheasant
 * P. b. ghigii Delacour & Jabouille, 1924 – Ghigi's Grey Peacock-Pheasant
 * P. b. bailyi Lowe, 1925 – Lowe's Grey Peacock-Pheasant (disputed)
 * P. b. bakeri Lowe, 1925 – Northern Grey Peacock-Pheasant

Distribution/habitat
The Grey Peacock-Pheasant is distributed in lowland and hill forests of mainland Assam and Southeast Asia, but excluding most of Indochina as well as the entire Malayan Peninsula. The diet consists mainly of seeds, termites, fruits and invertebrates. The female usually lays two eggs. Widespread throughout its large range, the Grey Peacock-Pheasant is evaluated as a Species of Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.