About Polyplectron bicalcaratum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Polyplectron bicalcaratum, the grey peacock-pheasant, is a large pheasant that reaches up to 76 cm in length. Its plumage is greyish brown, marked with finely spotted green eyespots. It has an elongated bushy crest, bare pink or yellow facial skin, a white throat, and grey iris, bill, and legs. The sexes are quite similar in appearance, though the female is smaller, darker, and has less ornate features than the male. Young grey peacock-pheasants look similar to females. This species is distributed in lowland and hill forests of Bangladesh, Northeast India, and Southeast Asia, but it is not found across most of Indochina or anywhere on the entire Malayan Peninsula. Its diet consists mainly of seeds, termites, fruits, and invertebrates. Females of this species usually lay two eggs per clutch.
