Western Tragopan

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has dark gray or black body feathers with white patches
2. Male has blue bare skin on the throat and red bare skin on the face
3. Male has a black bill and pink or gray legs and feet

Male, female and young

Female smaller, brownish-gray with black patches; immature male resembles the female but is larger and longer-legged.

Voice

Gives “waa——waa” in danger; during display, gives two loud notes, “wou-weee”, repeated once per second, and can continue for a long time.

Where and when it's recorded

No records at the public birding hotspots we track. It may be rare, remote, or its locations protected.

About

The western tragopan or western horned tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus) is a medium-sized brightly plumed landfowl found along the range of Western Himalayas from north-eastern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northern Pakistan in the west to Uttarakhand within India to the east. The species is highly endangered and globally threatened.

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