Silver pheasants first captured in Dawei mountain

Using infrared surveillance cameras, the management of the Pingbian national nature reserve in south Yunnan’s Honghe prefecture recently has, for the first time, taken some pictures of the rare silver pheasants, a bird under the second-class state protection in China.

“Inhabiting deep in the dark forests, the silver pheasant is a large bird with size differences between the male and female ones,” said Yang Zepeng, assistant engineer at the Pingbian reserve management.

Mt. Dawei is also home other rare animals and 18 plant species, including the rare wet rainforest vegetations, making it a nature reserve with a high degree of biodiversity. 

Source: Yunnan Daily App; Trans-editing by Zhang Shuyu