Edwards's pheasant
lophura edwardsi latin

Edwards's pheasant (Lophura edwardsi)

Edwards's Pheasant is almost identical to the similarly sized Vietnamese Pheasant, which it overlaps with throughout its range.

Edwards's Pheasant (Lophura edwardii), a Vietnamese pheasant presumed extinct from 1928 until it was rediscovered in 1998.

Edwards's Pheasant, Lophura edwardsi, is a bird of the pheasant family Phasianidae and is endemic to the rainforests of Vietnam.

Six new mammal species, including the saola, giant muntjac and Tonkin snub-nosed monkey have also been discovered, along with one new bird species, the endangered Edwards's Pheasant.

The park has endemic subspecies of Silver Pheasant (Lophura nycthemera beli) and Edwards's Pheasant (Lophura edwardsi).

This rare bird was determined not to be a true species, but naturally occurring hybrids between the Edwards's Pheasant and the subspecies annamensis of the Silver Pheasant (L. nycthemera).

In 2012 the nominate form of Edwards's Pheasant have been uplisted to Critically endangered by Birdlife International, having suffered from deforestation, hunting and the use of defoliants during the Vietnam War.

The zoo participates in several European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) European Endangered Species Programmes (EEP) programs, including Edwards's pheasant, Pied Vari, Colombian spider monkey and Sri Lanka panther.

He suggested that the Vietnamese Pheasant, Lophura hatinhensis, might be a different species from Edward's Pheasant, Lophura edwardsi, although most ornithologists do not split these two forms.