Pheasants: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan ... - IUCN

Contents
Foreword .......................................................................v
Acknowledgements .......................................................vi
Executive Summary .....................................................vii
1. The Conservation of Pheasants................................1
1.1 Introduction ...........................................................1
1.2 Introduction to pheasants ...................................... 1
Species included in this Action Plan .......................1
Distribution and general biology ............................ 1
1.3 Relationship with humans ...................................... 2
1.4 Other sources of information on pheasants ............3
1.5 Background to the Second Edition ......................... 4
Who are we? – the Pheasant Specialist Group ........4
Updating the Action Plan ....................................... 4
1.6 Threats to the survival of pheasants .......................5
Habitat loss and degradation .................................5
Hunting .................................................................. 6
Human disturbance ................................................7
Hybridisation with released stock .......................... 7
Summary of the threat status of pheasants ............7
1.7 Actions for the conservation of pheasants.............. 7
Clarifying taxonomic units ..................................... 7
Gathering baseline information .............................. 8
Making strategic conservation recommendations ... 9
Specific types of conservation action .................... 10
Monitoring effects of conservation action ............ 14
Wider dissemination of conservation
recommendations ................................................. 15
Summary of conservation action .......................... 15
2. Summary of Pheasant Conservation Status ........... 16
2.1 Critically Endangered species ............................... 16
2.2 Endangered species ............................................... 17
2.3 Vulnerable species ................................................ 19
2.4 Lower Risk species ............................................... 21
2.5 Data Deficient species .......................................... 23
3. Species Accounts ................................................... 24
3.1 Critically Endangered species ............................... 24
3.2 Endangered species ............................................... 24
Edwards’s pheasant (Lophura edwardsi) ............... 24
Vietnamese pheasant (Lophura hatinhensis) ......... 25
Bornean peacock-pheasant
(Polyplectron schleiermacheri) .............................. 26
3.3 Vulnerable species ................................................ 26
Western tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus) ..... 26
Blyth’s tragopan (Tragopan blythii) ...................... 27
Cabot’s tragopan (Tragopan caboti) ..................... 28
Sclater’s monal (Lophophorus sclateri) ................. 28
Chinese monal (Lophophorus lhuysii) ................... 29
Sumatran pheasant (Lophura hoogerwerfi) ........... 29
Salvadori’s pheasant (Lophura inornata) .............. 30
Crestless fireback (Lophura erythrophthalma) ...... 31
Bulwer’s pheasant (Lophura bulweri) .................... 31
Brown eared-pheasant
(Crossoptilon mantchuricum)................................. 32
Cheer pheasant (Catreus wallichi)......................... 33
Elliot’s pheasant (Syrmaticus ellioti) .................... 33
Hume’s pheasant (Syrmaticus humiae) ................. 34
Reeves’s pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii)................ 34
Mountain peacock-pheasant
(Polyplectron inopinatum) ..................................... 35
Germain’s peacock-pheasant
(Polyplectron germaini) ......................................... 36
Malaysian peacock-pheasant
(Polyplectron malacense)....................................... 36
Palawan peacock-pheasant
(Polyplectron emphanum) ...................................... 37
Crested argus (Rheinardia ocellata) ...................... 37
Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis) .................... 38
Green peafowl (Pavo muticus) .............................. 39
3.4 Data Deficient species .......................................... 39
Imperial pheasant (Lophura imperialis) ................ 39
4. Five-year Plan of Action (2000–04) ....................... 41
4.1 Global projects ..................................................... 41
Project 1. Increasing the effectiveness of the
Pheasant Specialist Group (PSG) ......................... 41
Project 2. Improving communication of
research findings ................................................... 42
Project 3. Maintaining an Asian Galliformes
sites database ........................................................ 43
Project 4. Assessing populations of Asian
Galliformes within protected areas ....................... 43
4.2 Regional projects .................................................. 44
Project 5. Review of information on
Indochinese pheasants .......................................... 44
Project 6. Surveys for threatened pheasants in
southwest China ................................................... 44
Project 7. Surveys for threatened pheasants in
Sumatra ................................................................ 44
Project 8. Surveys for threatened pheasants in
Borneo .................................................................. 45
4.3 Strategic projects .................................................. 45
Project 9. Taxonomic re-assessment of
pheasants .............................................................. 45
Project 10. Effective management of captive
pheasant stocks ..................................................... 46
Project 11. Developing methods for
re-introduction of pheasants ................................ 46
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