The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae). It is native to Asia and has been widely introduced elsewhere as a game bird. In parts of its range, namely in places where none of its relatives occur such as in Europe (where it is naturalized), it is simply known as the "pheasant". Ring-necked pheasant is both the name used for the species as a whole in North America and also the collective name for a number of subspecies and their intergrades which have white neck rings.
- Series: Pheasants
- Country: North Korea
- Year: 1976-05-05
- Emission: Commemorative
- Perforation: comb 13
- Printing: Offset lithography
- Size: 52 x 34 mm
- Face value: 50 North Korean chon
- Number of catalogue Michel: KP 1506
White eared pheasants (Crossoptilon crossoptilon) are a species of "eared pheasants" and get their name because they are white and have the prominent ear tufts of the genus, not because they have white ears. They are called shagga, meaning snow fowl, by indigenous Himalayan peoples. These gregarious birds live in large flocks, foraging on alpine meadows close to or above the snowline throughout the year. White eared pheasants tend to fly a great deal more than their close relatives, the brown eared and blue eared pheasants. All three ecological species are obliged to hover or volplane over deep snow. They do this with the aid of their great wide tails. Eared pheasants move across deep snow by whirring their wings and fluttering close to the ground, and supporting their weight on their retrices, leave characteristic if somewhat other worldly appearing tracks.
- Series: Pheasants
- Country: North Korea
- Year: 1976-05-05
- Emission: Commemorative
- Perforation: comb 13
- Printing: Offset lithography
- Size: 52 x 34 mm
- Face value: 40 North Korean chon
- Number of catalogue Michel: KP 1505
The Temminck's tragopan (Tragopan temminckii) is a medium-sized, approximately 64 cm long, pheasant in the genus Tragopan. The male is a stocky red-and-orange bird with white-spotted plumage, black bill and pink legs. It has a bare blue facial skin, inflatable dark-blue lappet and horns. The female is a white-spotted brown bird with blue circular eye skin.
- Series: Pheasants
- Country: North Korea
- Year: 1976-05-05
- Emission: Commemorative
- Perforation: comb 13
- Printing: Offset lithography
- Size: 52 x 34 mm
- Face value: 25 North Korean chon
- Number of catalogue Michel: KP 1504
The Reeves's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii) is a large pheasant within the genus Syrmaticus. It is endemic to China. It is named for the British naturalist John Reeves, who first introduced live specimens to Europe in 1831.
- Series: Pheasants
- Country: North Korea
- Year: 1976-05-05
- Emission: Commemorative
- Perforation: comb 13
- Printing: Offset lithography
- Size: 52 x 34 mm
- Face value: 15 North Korean chon
- Number of catalogue Michel: KP 1503
The silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera) is a species of pheasant found in forests, mainly in mountains, of mainland Southeast Asia, and eastern and southern China, with introduced populations in Hawaii and various locations in the US mainland. The male is black and white, while the female is mainly brown. Both sexes have a bare red face and red legs (the latter separating it from the greyish-legged kalij pheasant). It is common in aviculture, and overall also remains common in the wild, but some of its subspecies (notably whiteheadi from Hainan, engelbachi from southern Laos, and annamensis from southern Vietnam) are rare and threatened.
- Series: Pheasants
- Country: North Korea
- Year: 1976-05-05
- Emission: Commemorative
- Perforation: comb 13
- Printing: Offset lithography
- Size: 52 x 34 mm
- Face value: 10 North Korean chon
- Number of catalogue Michel: KP 1502
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
The golden pheasant or Chinese pheasant, (Chrysolophus pictus) is a gamebird of the order Galliformes (gallinaceous birds) and the family Phasianidae (pheasants). It is native to forests in mountainous areas of western China, but feral populations have been established in the Europe, America, Australia and New Zealand.
- Series: Pheasants
- Country: North Korea
- Year: 1976-05-05
- Emission: Commemorative
- Perforation: comb 13
- Printing: Offset lithography
- Size: 52 x 34 mm
- Face value: 2 North Korean chon
- Number of catalogue Michel: KP 1500
