exctinct pheasants

[Lophura]

really my dream is also to play a part into breeding programs not just for ornamentals but for all galiformes species which is availble for the breeder march next year I willn add stone partridge to my collection and can t wait for it...

Being in South Africa, what are the status of the native Francolin in captivity?

 

[De Wet]

Being in South Africa, what are the status of the native Francolin in captivity?

south african species is not known in captivity but is not in real thread. I think the reason it is not in captivity is the fact it is not so brightly coloured like ornamentals and the sad thing is most breeders here do it for the money and the biggest concern here is inbreeding but the other africa species which is well in captivity is the yellow throat spurfowl and now the stone partridge and I think that the yellow can hybrid with our swainson and rednecked francolin here because there nature calling is exactly the same which can cause promblems in the furture if birds should escape. I think the biggest thread which is start to developing is that you get many mutations of helmeted guinea fowls and many keepers free ranging them on there farm which can hybrid of our wild guineas. I also have seen the local crested guineas in captivity which is done fine along with the vulturine guineas from north africa. but thats is my dream to came a part of galiformes projects in any sort but with some circumstances it is not posible...

 

[drowe005]

In the recent modern area of extinction (1500-present), only the Himalayan Quail & the New Zealand Quail (although validity of the species is in question regarding the New Zealand Quail) are known to be extinct.... for now.

I was actually reading an article just recently about a guy in some rural town (cant remember the country though, but was somewhere in Asia) that supposedly shot a Himalayan quail due to him not knowing what it was when hunting. Many people witnessed it, but no pictures exist. So assuming thats what it really was, there has to be atleast 1 pair left. It'd be really nice if they woulda had a picture,not only due to the fact that it would be nice to know that they still do exist, but also as I've been trying to find a picture of a Himalayan quail for a while and all I can ever find is just paintings.

 

[De Wet]

I was actually reading an article just recently about a guy in some rural town (cant remember the country though, but was somewhere in Asia) that supposedly shot a Himalayan quail due to him not knowing what it was when hunting. Many people witnessed it, but no pictures exist. So assuming thats what it really was, there has to be atleast 1 pair left. It'd be really nice if they woulda had a picture,not only due to the fact that it would be nice to know that they still do exist, but also as I've been trying to find a picture of a Himalayan quail for a while and all I can ever find is just paintings.

yes it will really be nice if this species could be rediscovered liked the madacascar pochard and the tinamou of new zealand

 

[Lophura]

I was actually reading an article just recently about a guy in some rural town (cant remember the country though, but was somewhere in Asia) that supposedly shot a Himalayan quail due to him not knowing what it was when hunting. Many people witnessed it, but no pictures exist. So assuming thats what it really was, there has to be atleast 1 pair left. It'd be really nice if they woulda had a picture,not only due to the fact that it would be nice to know that they still do exist, but also as I've been trying to find a picture of a Himalayan quail for a while and all I can ever find is just paintings.

The Himalayan Quail is an enigma, much like our Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Reported "sightings" have taken place (and believe me, I would LOVE for all of it to be true), but extensive searches have yielded nothing. Most scientists list the last "official" sighting to be 1876 and declared extinct the following year. If the bird exists, and I wish/hope it does, there has to be more proof to what has been presented so far (and same goes for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, we're going on 9 years since that brief clip of what was claimed to be the IBW, but upon further review, shows it to be Pileated - people continue to report they see, but where's the evidence? Where's the nesting & feeding locations that James Tanner described so well in the 30s & 40s? Yeah I can go on and on about the "Ghost Bird"!!).

http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=235 - has some good info on the species, although I am a skeptic on the claims of its existence (I'm from Missouri, show me).

http://www.arkive.org/himalayan-quail/ophrysia-superciliosa/image-G66137.html - A photo of a mounted specimen.

Both the Takahe and Edward's Pheasant were once believed gone forever, so there is hope, but we're talking a nearly 140 year gap with this species.

Dan

 

[Lophura]

I forgot to mention drowe005, I've tried for years to find a photo of a living Himalayan Quail, I don't believe there are any. (yet?

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Dan