Dec 10, 2010: Satyr Tragopan

xoxoxoBruce • Dec 10, 2010 12:48 am
Satyr Tragopan is a fancyass Pheasant from Asia, if that makes finding recipes easier.
Head almost completely feathered and black, a band on each side of the crest, the sides of the neck, the upper back, shoulders, and upper breast, deep crimson red; rest of under parts crimson, with black and white ocelli, becoming larger and greyish on the abdomen and flanks; under tail coverts red, with brown-lined white ocelli, and two larger olive ones on the sides; longer tail-coverts brown with subterminal mottled dark brown and buff, the tip of tail black. Iris brown; bill black; bare skin of throat dark blue; lappet blue in the middle, pale green on the margins, with four or five triangular scarlet patches on each side; fleshy horns blue; the lappet extends to a length of 100 mm and the horns to 75 mm during display; legs pink. The tail is proportionally longer than other Tragopans.


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The hen is brown.

The courtship display transformation is worthy of the best Hollywood special effects.

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ZenGum • Dec 10, 2010 3:00 am
Flasher!
Trilby • Dec 10, 2010 4:41 am
It sold me.
SPUCK • Dec 10, 2010 6:18 am
The Bling Pheasant!
Scriveyn • Dec 10, 2010 9:04 am
Q. What's for Christmas dinner?
A. Flash in the pan.
capnhowdy • Dec 10, 2010 9:04 am
With a rich creamy wine sauce and garlic croutons.........
Undertoad • Dec 10, 2010 9:16 am
...and a built-in bib.
TheMercenary • Dec 11, 2010 9:41 pm
Very awesome....
Gravdigr • Dec 13, 2010 2:35 am
He looks like a pimp.
TheMercenary • Dec 15, 2010 2:58 pm
But what a pimp is he.