Malayan peacock-pheasant

Among the birdlife, the rare Malayan peacock-pheasant is still found in the reserve in some numbers.

As well as birds such as the great argus, red junglefowl, and the rare Malayan peacock-pheasant are still found here in some numbers.

Being very poorly known, the Bornean peacock-pheasant was long considered to be a subspecies of the Malayan peacock-pheasant, but the two species are well-isolated geographically.

ARKive - images and movies of the Malayan Peacock-Pheasant (Polyplectron malacense)

Due to ongoing habitat loss, small population size and limited range, the Malayan peacock-pheasant is evaluated as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

The Malayan peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron malacense) also known as crested peacock-pheasant or Malaysian peacock-pheasant, is a medium-sized pheasant of the galliform family Phasianidae.

Together with the phenotypically similar Malayan peacock-pheasant and -Palawan peacock-pheasant it represents a basal group in its genus; their radiation probably took place during the Pliocene (Kimball et al. 2001).