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SIAMESE FIREBACK
The Siamese Fireback, Lophura diardi also known as Diard's Fireback is a medium-sized, up to 80cm long, grey pheasant with an extensive red facial skin, crimson legs and feet, ornamental black crest feathers, reddish brown iris and long curved blackish tail. The female is a brown bird with blackish wing and tail feathers.
The Siamese Fireback is distributed in the lowland forests of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. The scientific name commemorates the French naturalist Pierre-Médard Diard.
Due to ongoing habitat loss and hunted in some areas, the Siamese Fireback is evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Siamese Fireback is the national bird of Thailand.
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