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Western Tragopan
August 3 , 2023
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- Himachal Pradesh’s State bird – Western Tragopan (Tragopan-melanocephalus) has been facing habitat loss in parts of the country.
- But because of authorities’ efforts, there has been a gradual increase in the population of this species at the State’s Sarahan pheasantry, the conservation breeding centre.
- Its population has steadily gone up over the past two decades.
- The bird has a disjunct distribution in the northwest Himalayas from north Pakistan (Indus-Kohistan district) to India, including Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, and the western parts of Uttarakhand.
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