Blyth's Tragopan

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has a rusty head
2. Male has yellow bare skin on the face
3. Male has small white spots on the back
4. Male has a black band from the base of the bill to the crown

Male, female and young

Female dull, dark brown with black, buff and white mottling; juvenile resembles the female, acquiring full adult plumage only in its second year.

Where and when it's recorded

Blyth's Tragopan has been recorded at 2 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 1 country or region.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

To protect this bird from disturbance, we don't list exact sites.

Countries and regions with the most records

Myanmar (Burma)

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

Blyth's tragopan (Tragopan blythii) or the grey-bellied tragopan is a pheasant that is a vulnerable species. The common name commemorates Edward Blyth (1810–1873), English zoologist and Curator of the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. It is the state bird of Nagaland.

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