Chinese Monal

Largest of the three monals, up to 80cm in length, the Chinese Monal is restricted to mountains of central China.

The Chinese Monal is classified as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

The Chinese Monal, Lophophorus lhuysii, is one of the most brilliant of all pheasants. The plumage is highly iridescent. The male has a large drooping purple crest, a metallic green head, blue bare skin around the eyes, a reddish gold mantle, bluish green feathers and black underparts. The female is dark brown with white on its throat. Largest of the three monals, up to 80cm in length, the Chinese Monal is restricted to mountains of central China. More

hunting, the Chinese Monal is evaluated as Vulnerable on IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix I of CITES. References - * BirdLife International (2004). Lophophorus lhuysii. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. More

The Chinese monal has a small population that is slowly declining (2). Western Sichuan is the second most important timber-producing region in China and has been widely exploited as a result; furthermore, cleared forests are increasingly accessible to local people (4). One of the monal’s major summer food sources are the bulbs of fritillary, which is an important herb in Chinese medicine; the collection of this species may locally threaten populations of this bird. More

* OBC - Chinese Monal - Images of this species from the Oriental Bird Club Image Database. * Wikipedia - Chinese Monal - Wikipedia's species page. - More

The Chinese Monal lives at between 9,000 feet in winter and up to 16,000 feet in summer, principally in North Sichuan, where according to He Fen qi and colleagues, who conducted WPA study, it fees principaply on roots, bulbs, leaves, and flowers. The former is probably the most important part of its diet. Nests were found at around 12,000 feet and the eggs were described as yellowish with irregular brown spots and take 28 days to hatch. More

is still fairly secure, although its cousin the Chinese Monal is classified as threatened due to poaching and other anthropogenic factors. Males had been under heavy hunting pressure for its crest feather, which was used to ornament hats of Himachal men, until 1982 when legal hunting was banned in the state. More

Chinese Monal is a resident bird and endemic to China, dispersing over southeast Qinghai Province, Dingxing, Kangding, Ruchuan, Pingwu of western Sichuan Province as well as Jiaoxian, Diebu, Zouqu of Gansu Province. It has been listed in Appendix I of International Trade Convention on Endangered Wild Animal and Plant Species. More

Due to habitat degradation and illegal hunting, the Chinese Monal is evaluated as Vulnerable on IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix I of CITES. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Chinese Monal" Chinese Monal Classic T-shirt Chinese Monal Classic T-shirt our price: $18.99 Chinese Monal Ringer T Chinese Monal Ringer T our price: $18. More