Can bamboo chicken be caught?

Bamboo pheasants, also known as mud slippery, bamboo partridges, flat cans, landlords and so on, are chicken-shaped and pheasant animals. the bird is distributed in the wild in the mountains of the provinces south of the Yangtze River. So, can bamboo chicken be caught?

First, can the bamboo chicken be caught?

If it is just an ordinary bamboo pheasant, it can be caught; if it is a brown-breasted bamboo pheasant and a gray-breasted bamboo pheasant, it cannot be caught. Because brown-breasted bamboo pheasant and grey-breasted bamboo pheasant belong to the "three have" protected animals, they are listed in the list of terrestrial wildlife under state protection or of important economic and scientific research value issued by the State Forestry Administration on August 1, 2000. It may be illegal to catch privately.

What does the bamboo chicken look like?

The bamboo pheasant is about 30 centimeters long and weighs 200-350 grams, while the adult rooster can reach about 300 grams. It is smaller than a partridge and has brown and spotted hair. The beak is black or near brown, the forehead and eyebrow lines are gray, the top of the head and neck are tender olive brown, and there are smaller white spots. The chest is gray, semi-annular, the front of the lower body is chestnut brown, and then turns brown, with black-brown spots on the ribs and yellowish-brown tarsometatarsus and toes.

What kind of food does bamboo chicken eat?

Bamboo pheasants feed on weed seeds, vegetable leaves, buds, granular fruits and smaller insects and like to eat termites. Artificially raised to eat more corn, wheat, barnyard grass, etc., but also eat insects such as bread worms. Most of them are active on the hillside and the top of the mountain in summer, and move to the foot of the mountain, the edge of the stream and the jungle to find food in winter. Bamboo pheasants are not very afraid of people. if they are not disturbed, they can look for food within a visual distance of 3 to 5 meters from the human body.