Temminck's Tragopan

Scientific classification

Kingdom : Animalia

Phylum : Chordata

Order : Galliformes

Family : Phasianidae

Subfamily : Phasianinae

Genus : Tragopan

Species : t. Temminckii

Binomial : tragopan temminckii 

Female

Male

The Temminck's Tragopan is a medium sized, approximately 64 cm long, pheasant in the genus Tragopan. The male is 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. The diet consist mainly of berries, grass, and plants. This bird is distributed in forests of northern south asia, from northeast india, northwest vietnam, tibet, and northern provinces of China. The Temminck's Tragopan is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red list of Threatened Species.