Size: Length; 58-65cm. Weight; 350g.

Age: 15-20 years.

Habitat and distribution: Primary and secondary lowland evergreen forest in a small area of central Vietnam.

Breeding: These pheasants are extremely rare, and as such, little is known about them. However, we do know that they lay five to seven eggs which take around 21 days to hatch.

Diet: Fruit, seeds, flowers and leaves.

• This pheasant has a very small and highly fragmented range and a population of less than 3,000 individuals. Numbers are still thought to be declining due to destruction of its lowland forest habitat and high levels of hunting. If habitat loss and hunting continue, this species may become Critically Endangered in the very near future.
• The Vietnamese Pheasant was only discovered in 1964 and not described as a new species until 1975. They were not kept in captivity until 1990 and as such it is thought to be the rarest pheasant in captivity.
• Along with four other pheasant species, this pheasant featured on a special set of Vietnamese stamps designed to raise awareness.
• The Vietnamese Pheasant is also known as Vo Quy’s Pheasant after the person who first described them as a species.