copper pheasant (Syrmaticus soemmerringii) 日本語: ウスアカヤマドリ（薄赤山鳥、学名：Syrmaticus soemmerringii subrufus (Kuroda, 1919) ）のオス、藤原岳三重県いなべ市）にて
English: Syrmaticus soemmerringii subrufus (Copper Pheasant), male, in Mount Fujiwara, Inabe, Mie prefecture, Japan.
Date 8 April 2014, 08:06:49
Author Alpsdake https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alpsdake
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Syrmaticus_soemmerringii.JPG
The copper pheasant or Soemmerring's pheasant (Syrmaticus soemmerringii) is endemic to Japan. The scientific name commemorates the German scientist Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring. The copper pheasant is distributed in and endemic to the hill and mountain forests of Honshū, Kyūshū and Shikoku islands of Japan, where it is known as yamadori (山鳥). The diet consists mainly of insects, arthropods, roots, leaves and grains.
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Subfamily: Phasianinae
Genus: Syrmaticus
Species: Syrmaticus soemmerringii (Temminck, 1830)
