Meet Temminck’s tragopan
A rather rotund but exquisitely colored bird, covered in flame orange, flecked with white dots.
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.
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