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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 iii
Project 12. Deriving and implementing habitat management strategies for better-known threatened pheasants ...................... 47 4.4 Projects for Critically Endangered and Endangered species ............................................... 47 Project 13. Vietnamese lowland Lophura pheasants .............................................................. 47 Project 14. Bornean peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron schleiermacheri) .............................. 48 4.5 Projects for Vulnerable species ............................. 48 Project 15. Brown eared-pheasant (Crossoptilon mantchuricum)................................. 48 Project 16. Elliot’s pheasant (Syrmaticus ellioti) ..48 Project 17. Hume’s pheasant (Syrmaticus humiae) .............................................. 49 Project 18. Reeves’s pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii) ............................................. 50 Project 19. Mountain peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron inopinatum) ..................................... 50 Project 20. Germain’s peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron germaini) ......................................... 50 Project 21. Malaysian peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron malacense)....................................... 51 Project 22. Palawan peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron emphanum) ...................................... 51 Project 23. Crested argus (Rheinardia ocellata) ....52 Project 24. Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis)..52 Project 25. Green peafowl (Pavo muticus) ............ 52 References ................................................................... 54 Appendix 1. List of Pheasant Names ........................... 61 Appendix 2. List of Key Contacts ................................ 65 Appendix 3. Captive Populations of Pheasants ............ 66 iv
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Page 9 and 10: Chapter 1 The Conservation of Pheas
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Project 11. Developing methods for
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use in broadleaf woodland habitats;
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populations, which have increased t
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Once a widespread and common specie
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Davison, G.W.H. 1978a. Further note
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IUCN. 1998. IUCN guidelines for re-
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Potts, G.R. 1987. Conservation of p
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Appendix 1 List of Pheasant Names T
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Genus Species Subspecies English na
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