Guys are gaudy just like the other kind of birds.
Their white crown will be shown only in the mating season. Click the picture!

⑤ Crested Argus

 

 

The last bird on this area is Crested Argus. This bird is the model of the "Hou-ou" which is from Japanese mythology. And they are really precious bird all over the world.

The range of this bird extends from Vietnam to the Malay peninsula where still has many mines and unexploded bombs by the Vietnam war and that makes it difficult to accomplish the biological research. They barely can be found in the nature.

And this bird's beautiful pattern is built by thousands of thousands extremely small dots, made it so difficult to accomplish this drawing. Since they are barely found in the nature and they used to be over-hunted because of their that beautiful tail feather, we hardly found their pictures even if on the internet.

They have been listed as "Near Threatened". And you will be able to see them only in this zoo in Japan.


2013. JUL 11th.