Satyr Tragopan

The satyr tragopan, also called the crimson horned pheasant, is a Himalayan pheasant found in India, Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan. The male is about 70 cm long and mostly red with blue, black and white spots and freckles. In the mating season males grow blue horns and a throat wattle (Wikipedia, general species account).

It lives in moist oak and rhododendron forest with dense undergrowth and bamboo clumps, from 2,400 to 4,200 m in summer and down to about 1,800 m in winter. Its population is thought to be moderately small and subject to hunting and habitat loss through most of its range. SoIB 2023 treats it as endemic to the Indian subcontinent, rates it a Moderate conservation priority, gives it a Restricted range of about 11,000 km², and gives a long-term trend of about −33% that it calls inconclusive (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).