Temminck's Tragopan (Tragopan temminckii)
About the Temminck's Tragopan
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. The male's display features include bare blue facial skin, inflatable dark-blue lappet and horns. The females are a white-spotted brown with blue circular eye skin. Its appearance resembles the satyr tragopan, but unlike the latter species it has an all red upperbody plumage and an orange collar. The diet consists mainly of berries, grass and plants. Temminck's tragopan is found across the mountains of far northeast India, central China, far northern Myanmar to northwestern Tonkin in Vietnam.
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Listed as recorded in China, India in the xeno-canto catalogue.
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