Blood Pheasant

How to identify

Field marks

1. A ring of bare skin around the eye, usually crimson
2. Legs and feet red
3. Male has bright red feathers on the breast, neck and face
4. Bill short, stout and black; small crest on the head

Male, female and young

The male has bright red feathers on the breast, neck and face; the female is dark brown overall and more uniform in color.

Where and when it's recorded

Blood Pheasant has been recorded at 88 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 3 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. ChelelaBhutan352 records
2. MengbishanChina117 records
3. ThrumsinglaBhutan113 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaBhutanNepal

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The blood pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus) or blood partridge is a galliforme bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae and the only species in the genus Ithaginis. It is a relatively small, short-tailed pheasant that is widespread in the lower Himalayas ranging across North and East India, Nepal, Bhutan, South China and northern Myanmar. It has been classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2009, and the global blood pheasant population is thought to be stable.

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