This omnivorous bird forages by scratching and digging in the ground, mainly for fruits and seeds, but also for buds, fresh leaves, flowers and some insects, snails and earthworms. Cultivated beans, cereals and root crops are also taken from nearby farmland. Reeves’s pheasant roosts high off the ground, particularly in mature fir plantations where the bigger conifer trees offer excellent cover and a variety of roost-sites.