Meet the Golden Pheasant – The Shy Bird That Hides Its Beauty (13 Pics)

Golden Pheasants are shy birds that are difficult to find. They hide in thick woodlands and ran away from disturbance. But when they are found, their beauty is stunning to behold. Red-and-gold males are stunning and unmistakable.

What does a Golden Pheasant eat? The golden pheasant is a ground forager, mainly dining on a diet of insects and spiders, foliage including leaves, plant shoots, buds and seeds and in its native China, bamboo shoots and leaves. Indigenous to the mountain and forest regions of south and west China this monotypic species has had mixed fortunes when introduced by man to other areas of the world.