Cabot's Tragopan

Cabot's Tragopan, habitat, breeding, population Cabot's Tragopan (Tragopan caboti) (Galliformes: Phasianidae) is one of the endemic pheasant species in China.It is categorized as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red list (IUCN, 2008) and is also listed in Appendix I of CITES (Fuller and Garson, 2000).It is a national first grade protected species in China.Its population size is less than 4000 and this pheasant is only found in several small patches in southeastern China (Zheng and Wang, 1998; Fig. 1).The typical habitat of Cabot's Tragopan is a broadleaf evergreen and mixed broadleaf coniferous forest at elevations between 800-2000 m (Zhang andZheng, 2007).Much of its preferred habitat has been destroyed through conversion to agricultural land or for the construction of houses, roads and railways.It