The pheasant family belongs to the order of galliformes and has over 170 different species, the most famous of which are domestic turkey, black grouse, peacock, pheasant, capercaillie. Representatives of the family can be small birds from 90 g (quail) and large, reaching a mass of 6 kg (for example, peacocks). These birds spend most of their time on the ground, where they find food and nest in earthen pits. They fly little and reluctantly, but they run fast. In this connection, for the most part, they are sedentary birds. Pheasants have pronounced dimorphism: males are brighter and much larger than females.
Asian cupcake
diamond pheasant
Altai Snowcock
bamboo partridge
ptarmigan
white-tailed partridge
gray partridge
white-throated francolin
swamp francolin
Other types of pheasant birds
crested francolin
brown-bellied tragopan
white-tailed monal
Collared hazel grouse
Ocellated turkey
Ocellated tragopan
Capercaillie
blue grouse
sharp-tailed grouse
Blue eared pheasant
domestic turkey
green peacock
common peacock
green pheasant
golden pheasant
Itagin
dumb quail
common quail
common pheasant
fire-backed lofur
silver lofur
black lofur
crested argus
Conclusion
Birds of the pheasant family live almost all over the globe. The exceptions are the latitudes of the Arctic and Antarctic. Pheasants do not tolerate low temperatures well; they are more common in warm climates. They can also be found in temperate zones. They live in forests, steppes, deserts and semi-deserts and even in mountains. They love thickets of shrubs, where they get their food in the form of berries and seeds. However, they also eat small animals (for example, worms and insects).
Representatives of the family from a conservation point of view do not cause fear of extinction, but there are quite rare species such as, for example, the golden pheasant.
