Burung buruan (Game Birds)
Western Tragopan
Tragopan melanocephalus
- epik
- 32 km/h
- Rentan
Pheasant with a powder-blue inflatable bib and red side flaps that unfurl in display. Himalayan, secretive, dwindling.
- Populasi
- 3,200-9,500 mature individuals, decreasing
- Habitat
- Dense understorey of temperate, subalpine and broad-leaved forest in the Western Himalayas; upper temperate forest between 2,400-3,600 m in summer (brown oak, holly oak, conifers with dense understorey), descending in winter to grassy/shrubby gullies or dense coniferous/broad-leaved forest between roughly 1,750-3,000 m with less snow cover
- Fakta menarik
- The western tragopan gets its name from the Greek god Pan, after the pair of fleshy blue "horns" the male inflates above his head during his courtship display.
- Sebaran
- Western Himalayas, disjunct distribution from northeastern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa / Indus-Kohistan (Pakistan) east through Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh to Uttarakhand (India); known populations include Kohistan and Kaghan valley (Pakistan) and Kishtwar, Chamba and Kullu districts (India); extent of occurrence approximately 138,000 km²
- Makanan
- Mainly leaves, shoots, roots, flowers and seeds, foraged on the ground and in trees, supplemented with insects and other invertebrates; mostly arboreal for roosting but feeds terrestrially
- Ukuran
- 0,575 m
- Masa hidup
- 5,5 tahun
