Story of silver pheasant feathers
In this article, we invite you to discover the story of an emblematic pheasant, the silver pheasant. It boasts superb gray feathers that you can find in our store, but before we introduce them to you, let us explore together the history of the silver pheasant.
Discovering Lophura Nycthemera
This is a pheasant whose hues are predominantly white, gray, and black, as its name suggests: Nycthemera means black and white. In China, this bird is called Jug-ky, meaning the silver chicken. And it lives up to its name!
Like the golden pheasant, it originates from the southern regions of China, where it has been bred for nearly 4000 years. In the wild, this bird inhabits mountainous areas, settling on slopes up to 2000 meters in shrub and bamboo forests. It was not introduced to Europe until around the 1650s, where it was bred in France and England, just like several other pheasant species.
Characteristics of the silver pheasant's feather
After this brief introduction to the history of the silver pheasant, let's spend a few lines describing its appearance, to give you a better idea of the feathers it offers.
The silver pheasant is more imposing than its counterparts such as the golden pheasant. The male can measure up to 1 meter 25, its plumage is distinguished in two parts of different colors. The upper part of its body is silver-colored, with lines of black. The lower part of its body is dark, blue-black. Its tail can measure up to 75 centimeters, and remains the same color as the upper part of the plumage, that is, black and silver.
Our silver pheasant feathers
Find our silver pheasant feathers in a selection of 2 types, from the 5-centimeter feather to the 30-centimeter feather.
The long silver pheasant feather:
These are superb wing feathers of the silver pheasant, they are a brilliant gray, and traversed by intense black lines joining the tip of the feather symmetrically on either side of the rachis. You can find this feather by [clicking here].
The small silver pheasant feather:
Thinner than the first, they adopt the same colors and the same lines, but in a much smaller format, about 1.2 inches to 2.4 inches. Find it by [clicking here].
