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Edwards's pheasant

Lophura edwardsi (Oustalet, 1896)

CRCritically Endangeredbirds

The edwards's pheasant (Lophura edwardsi) is a species in the family Phasianidae, order Galliformes. Recorded adults weigh 1.08 kg to 1.1 kg. Its IUCN Red List status is Critically Endangered.

Edwards's pheasant (Lophura edwardsi)
Photo: DickDaniels ( http://theworldbirds.org/ ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the edwards's pheasant

Weight
1.09 kgsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Omnivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
5.3src for Young per litter or clutch
Lifestyle
Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the edwards's pheasant live?

Not recorded

What is the edwards's pheasant?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

Edwards's pheasant (Lophura edwardsi) is a bird of the pheasant family Phasianidae and is endemic to the seasonal tropical forests of central Vietnam. It is named after the French ornithologist Alphonse Milne-Edwards and first described to science in 1896. The bird's length is 58–65 centimetres (23–26 in) and has red legs and facial skin. The male is mainly blue-black with a crest, and the female is a drab brown bird. The alarm call is a puk!-puk!-puk!.

There are two varieties; the nominate form L. e. edwardsi has a white crest and upper tail, whereas the northern form, usually called Vietnamese pheasant, is found with a variable number of white rectrices. This difference in the two forms may be due to inbreeding of a restricted, fragmented population there, and has also been seen in captive, inbred L. edwardsi.

In 2012 the nominate form of Edwards's pheasant have been uplisted to Critically Endangered by BirdLife International, having suffered from deforestation, hunting and the use of defoliants during the Vietnam War. The population is currently believed to number between 50 and 249 birds in the wild, mostly of the nominate form, but it is doing well in captivity, where it is the subject of ex situ conservation. There have been no confirmed sightings of a living individual in the wild since 2000 and in 2010 the World Pheasant Association (WPA) received funding from the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund to survey forests in the central Vietnam provinces of Quảng Bình and Quảng Trị. It is considered possibly extinct in the wild as a result.

From the Wikipedia article “Edwards's pheasant” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edwards%27s_pheasant&oldid=1364396267), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the edwards's pheasant endangered?

The edwards's pheasant is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List: it faces an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Critically Endangered species.

How is the edwards's pheasant classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderGalliformes
  5. familyPhasianidae
  6. genusLophura
  7. SpeciesLophura edwardsi (Oustalet, 1896)

Synonyms Gennaeus edwardsi, Hierophasis edwardsi, Lophura hatinhensis, Lophura imperialis

Other names and names in other languages (51)
  • Edward's pheasantEnglish
  • Vietnam pheasantEnglish
  • Vietnamese pheasantEnglish
  • تدرج إدواردسArabic
  • تدرج فيتناميArabic
  • Едуардов фазанBulgarian
  • Fazan EdwardsBreton
  • faisà d'EdwardsCatalan
  • bažant annamskýCzech
  • bažant EdwardsůvCzech
  • bažant vietnamskýCzech
  • ffesant EdwardsWelsh
  • VietnamildrygDanish
  • EdwardsfasanGerman
  • Edwards-FasanGerman
  • Eduarda fazanoEsperanto
  • eduardsa fazanoEsperanto
  • Faisán de EdwardsSpanish
  • Faisán de VietnamSpanish
  • annami faasanEstonian
  • قرقاول ادواردPersian
  • annaminfasaaniFinnish
  • Faisan d'EdwardsFrench
  • Faisan d’EdwardsFrench
  • vietnami fácánHungarian
  • Vietnámi fácánHungarian
  • Fagiano di EdwardsItalian
  • コサンケイJapanese
  • 소산계Korean
  • 쇠산계Korean
  • Edvardso lofuraLithuanian
  • Edwards' FazantDutch
  • edelfasanNorwegian
  • kiściec annamskiPolish
  • ایڈورڈ بن ککڑWestern Panjabi
  • faisão-de-eduardoPortuguese
  • faisão-de-edwardsPortuguese
  • faisão-do-vietnãPortuguese
  • faisão-do-vietnamePortuguese
  • Фазан ЭдвардсаRussian
  • Лофура ЭдвардсаRussian
  • bažant pestrýSlovak
  • Vijetnamski fazanSerbian
  • EdwardfasanSwedish
  • vietnamfasanSwedish
  • Edward SülünüTurkish
  • лофур анамськийUkrainian
  • Gà lôi lam mào trắngVietnamese
  • 愛氏鷴Chinese
  • 愛德華氏鷴Chinese
  • 爱氏鹇Chinese

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Relatives of the edwards's pheasant

Other species in the same genus Lophura.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the edwards's pheasant?

An adult edwards's pheasant weighs 1.09 kg, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the edwards's pheasant endangered?

The edwards's pheasant is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, meaning it faces an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

What kind of animal is the edwards's pheasant?

The edwards's pheasant (Lophura edwardsi) belongs to the family Phasianidae in the order Galliformes.

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BibTeX
@misc{edwards_s_pheasant_2026,
  title = {Edwards's pheasant (Lophura edwardsi)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/edwards-s-pheasant},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}