Mounted Phoenix rooster. This rooster has the beautiful and extremely long cover and tail feathers. The Phoenix fowl is a breed of chicken that originated in Japan and Germany, and is counted among the long-tailed fowl breeds as a pure ornamental breed. A bantam variety also exists. Around 1878, long-tailed hens were imported to Germany from Japan, which were crossed with English fighting hens and other breeds among others to enable adaptation to the European climate,[1] taking its name from the long-tailed phoenix usually depicted in oriental art. In continental Europe the breed is recognized separately, in Great Britain, on the other hand, because of its close resemblance to the Yokohama hen, it is seen as a variant of this single-crested breed