Forest fragmentation in India and Pakistan is causing the continued decline of the Western tragopan (tragopan melanocephalus, VU). From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in the Himalayas] Reference
The largest number of the highly threatened western tragopan (tragopan melanocephalus) and long-billed bush-warbler (Bradypterus major) are found here. From Wordnik.com. [East Afghan montane conifer forests] Reference
I may put up my own pic in a while: we keep a spiny lobster, a hippo, a tragopan, a Zuni turtle and the latest addition, an armadillo, who looks perpetually ill-at-ease. From Wordnik.com. [Animal toys] Reference
Some of these species are Blyth's tragopan (tragopan blythii), great hornbill (Buceros bicornis), wreathed hornbill (Aceros undulatus), and rufous-necked hornbill (Aceros mipalensis). From Wordnik.com. [Northern Triangle subtropical forests] Reference
The Western Himalaya EBA has 11 species restricted to it, including the Himalayan quail as well as the cheer pheasant (Catreus wallichii, VU) and the western tragopan (tragopan melanocephalus, VU). From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in the Himalayas] Reference
Koklass pheasant (Pucrasia macrolopha), western tragopan (tragopan melanocephalus), and Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus) - are characteristic of these sub-alpine western Himalayan forests and have low disturbance thresholds. From Wordnik.com. [Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests] Reference
There are several other high-elevation specialists, such as the Himalayan snowcock (Tetraogallus himalayensis), Tibetan partridge (Perdix hodgsoniae), snow partridge (Lerwa lerwa), Satyr tragopan (tragopan satyra), lammergeier, and the Himalayan griffon, that also need conservation attention. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows] Reference
Other rare and important species in the area of Mount Wuyi include: the Chinese tiger Panthera tigris amoyensis, clouded leopard Neofelis nebulosa, leopard P. pardus, black muntjac Muntiacus crinifrons, mainland serow Capricornis sumatraensis, Cabot's tragopan tragopan caboti, Chinese black-backed pheasant Syrmaticus ellioti, the Chinese giant salamander Andrias davidianus, and the butterfly Golden Kaiserihind Teinopalpus aureus. From Wordnik.com. [Mount Wuyi, China] Reference
The tragopan is better known as the hored pheasant. From Wordnik.com. [Words and Pictures From Old Books] Reference
The figure on the right represents Sclater's Impeyan; that on the left is Blyth's tragopan. From Wordnik.com. [Words and Pictures From Old Books] Reference
Not less readily distinguishable from its congeners is the tragopan, which Dr. Jerdon has named Ceriornis Blythii or Blyth's tragopan. From Wordnik.com. [Words and Pictures From Old Books] Reference
Behind, in the background, is given a view of Temminck's tragopan, in order to show the remarkable way in which these birds display their throat-wattler in the breeding-season. (p. 345). From Wordnik.com. [Words and Pictures From Old Books] Reference
Some of these include the western tragopan (tragopan melanocephalus), Satyr tragopan (tragopan satyra), Koklass pheasant (Pucrasia macrolopha), Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus), and Cheer pheasant (Catreus wallichi). From Wordnik.com. [Western Himalayan broadleaf forests] Reference
These species include the Oriental pied-hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris), wreathed hornbill (Aceros undulatus), Blyth's tragopan (tragopan blythii), Himalayan flameback (Dinopium shorii), and Sclater's monal (Lophophorus sclateri). From Wordnik.com. [Northern Triangle temperate forests] Reference
Amongst the described species of the genus it most nearly resembles Cabot's tragopan, being in the lower part of its middle of a nearly uniform colour, somewhat like that species, and not distinctly ocellated, as in the three other members of the genus. From Wordnik.com. [Words and Pictures From Old Books] Reference
But in other parts of this unknown land systematic collecting of skins goes on, for bale after bale of impeyan and red argus (tragopan) pheasant skins goes down to the Calcutta wharves, where its infamous contents, though known, are safe from seizure under the Nepal Raja's seal!. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
The pheasants are Blyth's tragopan (tragopan blythii), Temminck's tragopan (tragopan temminckii), ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), Lady Amherst's pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae), blood pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus), silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera), and Siamese fireback (Lophura diardi). From Wordnik.com. [Northern Indochina subtropical forests] Reference
These species, namely the globally threatened rufous-necked hornbill (Aceros nipalensis) and Sclater's monal (Lophophorus sclateri), and the threatened white-bellied heron (Ardea insignis), Blyth's tragopan (tragopan blythii) and Ward's trogon (Harpactes wardi), therefore can be considered indicators of habitat integrity and deserve conservation attention. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests] Reference
The next day, the 30th of March, after a hasty breakfast, which consisted solely of the roasted tragopan, the engineer wished to climb again to the summit of the volcano, so as more attentively to survey the island upon which he and his companions were imprisoned for life perhaps, should the island be situated at a great distance from any land, or if it was out of the course of vessels which visited the archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
Other birds that are typical of these high-altitude ecosystems and can be used as focal species for conservation management planning include the blood pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus), western tragopan (tragopan melanoephalus), Satyr tragopan (tragopan satyra), and Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus), which inhabit the shrubby ground cover, and the large avian predators, lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus), golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), and Himalayan griffon (Gyps himalayensis). From Wordnik.com. [Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows] Reference
Complementing the endemic bird species are four pheasant species (Blyth's tragopan (tragopan blythii), grey peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron bicalcaratum), green peafowl (Pavo muticus), and Kalij pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos)) and three hornbills (great hornbill (Buceros bicornis), wreathed hornbill (Aceros undulatus), and oriental pied-hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris)), which are good indicators of intact forests because of their need for mature trees and low thresholds for disturbances. From Wordnik.com. [Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests] Reference
Family Common Name Species Phasianidae Chestnut-breasted partridge Arborophila mandellii Phasianidae Cheer pheasant Catreus wallichi Timaliidae Ludlow's fulvetta Alcippe ludlowi Turdidae Rusty-bellied shortwing Brachypteryx hyperythra Timaliidae Elliot's laughingthrush Garrulax elliotii Timaliidae Immaculate wren-babbler Pnoepyga immaculata Timaliidae Snowy-throated babbler Stachyris oglei Timaliidae Hoary-throated barwing Actinodura nipalensis Timaliidae Spiny babbler Turdoides nipalensis Timaliidae Mishmi wren-babbler Spelaeornis badeigularis Phasianidae Western tragopan tragopan melanocephalus An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan subtropical pine forests] Reference
Notice the flicker and the tragopan together – just as in the Harvard case – and she’s in Chicago – go figure. From Wordnik.com. [Hall of Mammals and Iridescence] Reference
You also got my other favorite display, the hummingbird case, and my favorite bird of all in the world bar Goshawks and “Great falcons”, the Satyr tragopan– well, maybe a tie with Temminck’s!. From Wordnik.com. [Hall of Mammals and Iridescence] Reference
Western tragopan. From Wordnik.com. [Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests] Reference
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