Temminck's Tragopan

Taxobox
name = Temminck's Tragopan
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1


image_width = 225px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Galliformes
familia = Phasianidae
genus = "Tragopan"
species = "T. temminckii"
binomial = "Tragopan temminckii"
binomial_authority = (Gray, 1831)The Temminck's Tragopan, "Tragopan temminckii" is a medium-sized, approximately 64cm 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.Its appearance resembles the Satyr Tragopan, but unlike the latter species it has all red upperbody plumage and orange collar. The diet consists mainly of berries, grass and plants.

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.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

External links

* ARKive - [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/birds/Tragopan_temminckii/ images and movies of the Temminck's Tragopan "(Tragopan temminckii)"]
* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=240&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=22064 IUCN Red List]
*Internet Bird Collection videos - [http://www.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=1100]