A rather rotund but exquisitely colored bird, covered in flame orange, flecked with white dots.
Meet Temminck’s tragopan
The Temminck’s tragopan (Tragopan temminckii) is a medium-sized, up to 64cm long, stocky red pheasant with white-spotted plumage, black bill, and pink legs. The Temminck’s Tragopan cock is an extremely bright-colored bird, mostly a rich shade of orange smothered with whitish ocelli. He has a gorgeous blue face surrounded by black. Like all the Tragopans he has an amazing display and is able to inflate a pair of “horns” from his crown and a bib from the throat.
The “bib” or lappet is particularly vivid with red and blue markings.
The female is a white-spotted brown bird with blue circular eye skin.
These birds live at high altitudes in the Eastern Himalayas, Southern Tibet, Myanmar, and some surrounding areas. Its range stretches from northeast India, northwest Vietnam, Tibet, and the northern provinces of China.
