MIKADO PHEASANT The Mikado Pheasant is a native bird of Taiwan. The male Mikado Pheasant is a beautiful black with a long tail. The feathers on their mantle, breast, and rump have purple-blue edges. They have a pointed black with white bars and a white tip tail. Their bare orbital skin is red. They like to live in dense forests, steep mountain slopes with banks that are 1,800 to 3,000m and maybe even higher. The Mikado Pheasant is very shy. They eat shoots, berries, flower buds, and insects. They will use bamboo stalks, and dry leaves to build their nest. They will build their nest on the trunk or branches of fallen trees or on the ground. The female will lay up to 10 eggs. The eggs will hatch in about 28 days. They are threatened because they are loosing their habitat and they were also hunted for food at one time. If they stay in the higher altitudes they are reasonably safe. …show more content…
It is a large and beautiful blackish-blue in color bird. They have a crest that is white and short. The feathers on their back and tail are a silvery-white. They have wattles that are red. The Swinhoe Pheasant like to live at elevations from 200 to 2,800m in wet hardwood forests. They are a very alert, but shy bird. Their diet consists of leaves, millipedes, earthworms, and termites. They like to look for food early in the morning and late in the afternoon. They will dig for their food on the forest floor. They like to nets at the foot of trees and under rocks. The female will lay 3 to 8 eggs that will hatch in about 25 days. The Swinhoe Pheasant is threatened in some areas because they have been hunted for food. In other areas they are protected and
The Longnose gars reproduction depends on location that the gar is found in. The reproduction does typically happen during the spring or summer months and all dependent on what the water temperature. The female gar will swim into a small, fast moving stream and lay their eggs (Goddard). The Longnose gar eggs are not just normal eggs that most people think of when they think of fish eggs. Their eggs are green and sticky so they can stick to the plants in the fast moving stream (
The piping plover usually nests on the sandy beach, some distance away from the water and is often located near a large rock or clump of grass. There are usually 4 eggs in the nest. The eggs begin to hatch for 25 to 30 days.
There are many different endemic species on the island of Puerto Rico. There are many different species of frogs, birds, snake, and even some mammals. The reason for this is a process called endemism. Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a certain part of the Earth, such as an island. An endemic species is different from an indigenous because endemic species can’t be found anywhere else. Since an island is so isolated from the mainland, endemic species can grow and evolve more than their mainland family members, due to the fact that there are less predators.
Sandhill Cranes are known for their courtship dances and their distinct loud calls. According to Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, there are a total of six subspecies of Sandhill Cranes that are classified into two groups; the migratory and non-migratory. “The three migratory subspecies (Lesser, Greater and Canadian) are distributed across a broad breeding range in the northern U.S. and Canada as well as eastern Siberia, with wintering grounds in the southern United States and northern Mexico. The three non-migratory subspecies (Mississippi, Cuban, and Florida) have restricted ranges in the southern United States and Cuba (International Crane Foundation).” According to Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, the declines in Sandhill Cranes are due to forfeiture of wetlands, changes in its environment, and hunting. Over the years, the debate is whether or not to hunt the bird. It is important that we preserve the Sandhill Cranes because they are not game birds, they’re beautiful birds, and they have cultural significance in other countries.
When the Atlantic Puffin’s young becomes mature enough to leave the nest, it will wait until night to emerge. Often its first time out of the nest, the young puffin becomes acclimated to its surroundings and begins to descend the perilous cliff face. Once it reaches the bottom, it will quickly travel out to sea. It leaves the island alone and will not return to land for two to three years.
Pheasants are one of the most popular game birds around South Dakota. A lot of people are known to have pheasant farms because they are so populated and are worth quite a bit of money. The pheasant is native to Asia and has widely introduced itself as a game bird. The ring-necked pheasant is a species that can be found anywhere in North America. It gets the ring neck name from the white ring around its neck separated a blue or black color on top and a light brown color on the bottom. Some of the other game birds that people hunt are geese, ducks, grouse, and some people hunt quail. Geese are a bigger game bird and most game birds are usually shot with a 12 or 20 gauge shotgun. All of these animals have a certain date for their season for when they can be
mother in the late 19th century. The bird is described as speaking a common language and
Audubon North American Birdfeeder Guide (Rev. ed., p. 150). New York: DK. & Co., Inc. Eastman, J. (1997).14-Crow and Jay Family (Corvidae). Birds of the forest, yard, and thicket. (pp. 127- 145).
Loggerheads mate in spring and nest from early May all the way through August (Lamont & Fujisaki 2014). Though they spend most of their time in the waters, they will go offshore for egg production. Female loggerheads nest every two to four years and lay between two and five clutches nest (Phillips et al. 2014). Some of the hatchlings will spend their juvenile years in the open ocean, while some will spend those years in coastal areas.
The gorillas live mainly in coastal West Africa in the Congo, Zaire, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon. Gorillas live in the rain forest. They usually live on the ground but build nest in trees to sleep in. Gorilla troops keep a 15-20 square mile range which often overlaps the range of other troops. There are three different kinds of gorillas. The eastern lowland gorilla the western lowland and the mountain gorilla. They are herbivores and eat only wild celery, roots, tree bark pulp, fruit, stems of many plants and bamboo shoots. They spend nearly half their day eating.
Female cobras lay 20 until 40 eggs at a time. It incubates between 60 to 80 days. India’s Snake World has stated that cobras will stay near the eggs and defend them until they hatch because wild boar and mongooses will steal cobra’s
When the colony becomes well established, the queen begins to lay some eggs that develop into queens and males. It takes a few years before a colony becomes large enough to send out winged males and young queens to start new colonies. The cycle will now begin all over again. Nests come in all shapes and sizes. One tropical species built a nest that extended forty feet below the surface of the ground.
Sixty percent of foods consumed by the Northern Pied Hornbill are figs. The bird can be found in many parts of southwestern Asia. The bird thrives outside of rainforests. The hornbill has a casque on top its beak, giving it its name. It is large in length, but doesn’t weigh much. The bird eats fruits, insects, and small reptiles, such as frogs. Its diet makes the hornbill omnivorous. The Northern Pied Hornbill lives in Southwestern Asia, it has a casque on top of its head, and eats fruits, insects, and small reptiles.
In our world today we have approximately 26,021 endangered species. Endangered species are organisms that may possible become extinct. The term 'endangered species' refers to all species that fits this description. However some conservation biologists and scientists normally use the term ‘endangered species’ to refer to species that are put on the IUCN(International Union for Conservation of Nature)Red List. Many factors can be looked at when considering the conservation status of a species. Factors such as human threats or environmental threats can cause a species to become endangered.