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Species
Vulnerablevia IUCN
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Vulnerable
- taxon name
- Tragopan melanocephalus
- Commons category
- Tragopan melanocephalus
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- Tragopan melanocephalus
- taxon common name
- tragopana-ocidental
- litter size
- 4.2
- CITES Appendix
- Appendix I of CITES
- short name
- T. melanocephalus
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Encyclopedic overview
The western tragopan or western horned tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus) is a medium-sized brightly plumed landfowl found along the range of Western Himalayas from north-eastern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northern Pakistan in the west to Uttarakhand within India to the east. The species is highly endangered and globally threatened.
Identification
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Western Tragopan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.