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Crested fireback

index of animals with the same common name

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ118868245 ↗
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Crested fireback is a name for two species of pheasant in the genus Lophura.

Bornean crested fireback (Lophura ignita)

Malayan crested fireback (Lophura rufa)

Crested firebacks typically have light-blue heads and dark bodies, with a red patch of feathers.

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This entry incorporates text from “Crested fireback” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.