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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Syrmaticus
- Image
- Mikado Pheasant 398.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Syrmaticus mikado
- Commons category
- Syrmaticus mikado
- endemic to
- China
- Commons gallery
- Syrmaticus mikado
- taxon common name
- faisão-micado
- CITES Appendix
- Appendix I of CITES
- short name
- S. mikado
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Encyclopedic overview
China Airlines Airbus A350-900 (B-18901) with Mikado Pheasant livery.
The Mikado pheasant (Syrmaticus mikado) is a species of gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. Sometimes considered an unofficial national bird of Taiwan (along with the Swinhoe's pheasant and Taiwan blue magpie), a pair of Mikado pheasants and Yushan National Park, one of the areas it is known to inhabit, is depicted in the 1000 dollar bill of the New Taiwan dollar.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mikado Pheasant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.