


TEMMINICKS TRAGOPAN
Tragopan temminckii
©Jan Harteman
The Temminck’s Tragopan is a medium-sized 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 which can be seen here.
The Temminck’s Tragopan is distributed in forests of northern South Asia, from northeast India, northwest Vietnam, Tibet and northern provinces of China.
Widespread and a common species throughout its large habitat range, the Temminck’s Tragopan is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Source
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