Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Lady Amherst's pheasant

  The Lady Amherst's pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae) is a bird of the order Galliformes and the family Phasianidae. The species is native to south-western China and Burma, but has been introduced elsewhere, and has established a self-supporting, but now declining, feral population in England, the stronghold of which is now in Bedfordshire.

  • Series: Pheasants
  • Country: North Korea
  • Year: 1976-05-05
  • Emission: Commemorative
  • Perforation: comb 13
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Size: 52 x 34 mm
  • Face value: 5 North Korean chon 
  • Number of catalogue Michel: KP 1501