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Blyth's tragopan pheasant is the largest of the genus Tragopan. Like most pheasants, the male is brightly colored. It is recognized by its rusty red head, yellow facial skin, and that it is spotted with small white dots on its back called ocelli. A black band extends from the base of the bill to the crown coupled with another black band extending behind the eyes. Like the rest of the tragopans, males have two pale blue horns that become erect during mating. Its lappet, a decorated flap, hangs from the throat and is brightly colored.
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When to see the Blyth's Tragopan
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 3 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Blyth's Tragopan
The map shades 4 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Bangladesh.
About the Blyth's Tragopan
Blyth's tragopan 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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Easily confused with
Temminck's TragopanTragopan temminckiiTemminck's tragopan is a medium-sized, approximately 64 cm long, pheasant in the genus Tragopan.
Cabot's TragopanTragopan cabotiCabot's tragopan is a plump ground-dwelling bird with relatively short legs.
Western TragopanTragopan melanocephalusThe male is very dark, grey and black with numerous white spots, each spot bordered with black and deep crimson patches on the sides and back of the neck.
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