Species factsheet

Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)

Order: Phasianus colchicus
Family: Pheasants, Fowl & Allies (Phasianidae)

Danish name: Fasan

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Subspecies and Distribution

septentrionalis

n Caucasus (s Russia)

colchicus

Transcaucasia (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan)

talischensis

se Transcaucasia (Azerbaijan, nc Iran)

persicus

sw Turkmenistan, ne Iran

principalis

se Turkmenistan, nw Afghanistan

chrysomelas

n Turkmenistan, w Uzbekistan

zarudnyi

e Turkmenistan

bianchii

se Uzbekistan, sw Tajikistan, ne Afghanistan

zerafschanicus

s Uzbekistan

turcestanicus

s Kazakhstan

mongolicus

se Kazakhstan, n Kyrgyzstan

shawii

w China

tarimensis

Tarim Basin to Lop Nur (w China)

vlangalii

Qaidam Basin (wc China)

strauchi

ne Qinghai (c China)

sohokhotensis

e Gansu (c China)

satscheuensis

w Gansu (nc China)

hagenbecki

w Mongolia

edzinensis

sc Mongolia

alaschanicus

Ningxia (nc China)

kiangsuensis

ne China

karpowi

ne China to Korea

pallasi

se Siberia, ne China, ne Korea

suehschanensis

nw Sichuan, s Gansu (wc China)

elegans

w Sichuan to nw Yunnan (wc China), ne Burma, e Tibet

decollatus

c China

rothschildi

se Yunnan (sc China), nw Vietnam

takatsukasae

sw Guandong (s China), ne Vietnam

torquatus

e China

formosanus

Taiwan

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