Cabot's Tragopan
Tragopan caboti
- Vulnerable
- Card rarity: Rare
- Birds
Cabot's tragopan is a pheasant found in south-east China. The common and scientific names of this large bird both commemorate the ornithologist Samuel Cabot III. Other common names include the Chinese tragopan and the yellow-bellied tragopan. The population is divided into two subspecies, of which the dominant subspecies is found in the provinces of Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Guangdong, and T. c. guangxiensis is confined to northeastern Guangxi and southern Hunan. The IUCN has assessed it as being a "vulnerable species".
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Galliformes
- Family
- Phasianidae
- Genus
- Tragopan