Profile
In flight
Game Birds
Satyr Tragopan
Tragopan satyra
- mythic
- 85 km/h
- Near Threatened
A pheasant that looks straight out of mythology. In display the male unfurls a sapphire throat-lappet patterned like an illuminated manuscript and erects two cobalt horns from his brow, then bows behind a log to a watching female who has, until that moment, no idea any of it was there.
- Population
- moderate and declining; estimated low tens of thousands of mature individuals
- Habitat
- dense moist Himalayan oak and rhododendron forests with thick undergrowth, roughly 2,400 to 4,300 meters in Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and southern Tibet
- Diet
- leaves, shoots, ferns, seeds, berries, bamboo, insects, invertebrates
- Size
- 0.68 m
- Wingspan
- 0.86 m
