#phasianinae

[best-bird-tournament]

Non-erectile Phasianinae pheasants

Which is the best bird?

Crimson-headed partridge

Green-legged partridge

Painted spurfowl

Indian peafowl

Red junglefowl/Chicken

Palawan peacock pheasant

Voting ended onSep 21, 2025

This is one of two clades in the large subfamily Phasianinae.

[alonglistofbirds]

[2994/11080] Double-spurred spurfowl - Pternistis bicalcaratus

Order: Galliformes Family: Phasianidae Subfamily: Phasianinae

Photo credit: Juan José Bazan Hiraldo via Macaulay Library

[animalids]

Green peafowl (Pavo muticus)

Photo by Christoph Keller

[dendroica]

Two Reeves’s pheasants look for food on a mountain slope in Guangshui, central China

Photograph: Mei Yongcun/Xinhua/Barcroft Images

(via The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian)

[matthew-hunt]

Kalij pheasant Ocean View Estates, Hawaii

[best-bird-tournament]

Tribe Lophophorini pheasants

Which is the best bird?

Satyr tragopan

Blyth's tragopan

Temminck's tragopan

Cabot's tragopan

Buff-throated partridge

Chinese monal

Himalayan monal

Sclater monal

Voting ended onSep 10, 2025

This tribe contains just 8 species in 3 genera (Tragopan, Tetraophasis, Lophophorus

[best-bird-tournament]

Erectile Phasianinae pheasants

Which is the best bird?

Common pheasant

Golden pheasant

Willow ptarmigan

Greater sage-grouse

Himalayan monal

Snow partridge

Blood pheasant

Tibetan pheasant

Long-billed partridge

Koklass pheasant

Voting ended onSep 21, 2025

This is one of two clades in the large subfamily Phasianinae.

[best-bird-tournament]

Tribe Phaesianini true pheasants

Which is the best bird?

Golden pheasant

Silver pheasant

White-eared pheasant

Common pheasant

Bulwer's pheasant

Cheer pheasant

Mrs. Hume's pheasant

Voting ended onSep 9, 2025