Tragopan alias: Shou chicken, Grey Spot Tragopan
Total length of about 60 cm. The male body feathers and two wings is mainly dark chestnut red, with grey ocellus with black edge, gray spot large and pale body. The head, neck and throat ring under the meat dress periphery is black; face, chin and bare head meat angle is blue; occipital crest orange red. Brown mouth. Feet pink, with distance. The female body grey brown body pale yellow, black, brown, white noise. Chestnut brown, black and pale brown. Foot distance.
Body weight: 980 male 1800g, female 930-1300g; body length of male 480-660mm, female 440-550mm mouth; male 14-16mm, female 12-15mm; winged male 210-256mm, female 202-230mm; tail male 200-251mm, male 158-197mm; tarsometatarsal male 71-77mm, female 58-68mm.
Domestic distribution: domestic distribution in Southeast Tibet, east to northern Yunnan, Northeastern Guizhou, southern Gansu, southern Shaanxi, Western Hunan, southwestern Hubei, northern Guangxi, Western Sichuan and other places in northern. India: foreign distribution abroad found in northeastern Assam, northern Burma and northwestern vietnam.
Perched above 1000-3500m mountain forest, shrubs, bamboo and other different types of vegetation, especially 1500-2500m evergreen broad-leaved forest and coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest is the most love, sometimes at an altitude of about 3500m alpine shrub, even bare rock zone activities.
Perched above 1600 ~ 3000 meters between red fir, birch forest, hidden in the dense bamboo clump or azalea, densely mossy tree. The main food plant seeds, fruit, buds and leaves. Multiple separate activities. Reproductive period between 4 and June. Building at the Huashan pine trunk branch fork, composed of Usnea and Yu Zhi, rattan, leaves etc.. Eggs each 3 ~ 10 pieces, yellow soil, brown spots in clouds. The incubation period of 26 to 30 days.
Diet: mainly in trees, shrubs, herbs and ferns and bamboo leaves, buds, twigs, fruits and seeds for food,. One of the most favorite plant species (Androsace spp.), Androsace Milich (Cardamine macrophylla), broken primroses (Prinula spp.), matteucciastruthiopteris (Matteuccia struthiopteris) (Rumes, spp.), Rumex Artemisia (Artemisia spp.), August (Akebia trifoliata) and melon (Rhus verniciflua), sumac bamboo (Sinarundinaria nitida) Ribes (Ribes, spp.), Rubus (Rubus spp.), blood (Samaucus adnata), grass (Cystopteris moupinsis) Baoxing cold fern, Dryopteris (Dryopteis spp. ), pod (Viburnum spp.), Kentucky Bluegrass (Poa annua), Clematis (Clematis spp.) and other Sorbus plant leaf and fruit (Li Xiangtao, 1993). In addition to eating a small amount of insects, blind spiders and other animal food.
Tragopan is a high ornamental value and economic value of the birds, as early as the first century was input to europe. Has been included in the national key protected wildlife list, is a national two protected animals. Sichuan main habitat survey, the number of breeding population was 4 /km2, the number of winter population was only 8 /km2. At present, their habitat and population are affected by deforestation, poaching and picking herbs, eggs and other human interference and threats, should strengthen the management and protection. Has been included in the world's endangered birds directory N level.