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Temminck's tragopan

Temminck's tragopans are a type of pheasant. The males have striking colours and use these to best effect in a dancing display designed to impress the females.

Scientific name: Tragopan temminckii

Rank: Species

Common names:

Crimson-bellied tragopan

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Distribution

Map showing the distribution of the Temminck's tragopan taxa

Species range provided by WWF's Wildfinder.

The Temminck's tragopan can be found in a number of locations including: Asia, Himalayas. Find out more about these places and what else lives there.

Habitats

The following habitats are found across the Temminck's tragopan distribution range. Find out more about these environments, what it takes to live there and what else inhabits them.

Behaviours

Discover what these behaviours are and how different plants and animals use them.

Additional data source: Animal Diversity Web

Conservation Status

Least Concern

  1. EX - Extinct
  2. EW
  3. CR - Threatened
  4. EN - Threatened
  5. VU - Threatened
  6. NT
  7. LC - Least concern

Year assessed: 2009

Classified by: IUCN 3.1

About

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.

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Classification

  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Vertebrates
  4. Birds
  5. Gamebirds
  6. Pheasants and partridges
  7. Tragopan
  8. Temminck's tragopan

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