Hume’s pheasant  (Syrmaticus humiae)

Range

Found in northeast India, north and east Myanmar, south-western China and northwest Thailand (4). Two subspecies exist, with S. h. humiae inhabiting the mountains of extreme northeast India east to western Myanmar, south to the Irrawaddy River, and S. h. burmanicus occurring within southern China, northern and eastern Myanmar and extreme northern Thailand (2) (7).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

Inhabits open dry evergreen (mainly oak), coniferous (mainly pine) and mixed coniferous-broadleaf forests on steep rocky hillsides, interrupted by scrub and grassy clearings (8), between 740 and 2,400 metres above sea level (2). Roosts are often located along ridges, and in other relatively open areas (8).

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