Cabot's Tragopan

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has a black head, with red-orange markings on the sides of the head and on the neck
2. Male has red-orange bare skin on the cheek and around the eye
3. Male has a blue-and-orange fleshy bib and a pair of blue fleshy horns
4. Male has reddish-brown upperparts with large pale yellow patches and straw-yellow underparts

Male, female and young

Female about 10 cm shorter than the male and less colorful, with reddish-brown upperparts bearing black spots and triangular white patches, and gray-brown underparts.

Where and when it's recorded

Cabot's Tragopan has been recorded at 18 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

China

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

Cabot's tragopan (Tragopan caboti) is a pheasant found in south-east China. The common and scientific names of this large bird both commemorate the ornithologist Samuel Cabot III. Other common names include the Chinese tragopan and the yellow-bellied tragopan.

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