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Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Satyr Tragopan

Scientific Name: Tragopan satyra
Place: Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary, East Sikkim, Sikkim

“Mournful call of an elusive bird - Satyr Tragopan”


As promised in previous blog (writing of Hill Partridge), here is what I present to you readers.

Previous night (27th May 2015), I had a conversation with tour participant Manu regarding - the sighting of Satyr Tragopan, the mournful baby-cry call of it and how gorgeous looking the bird really is - over a pint of Honey-Bee.


On second day of May 2015 (i.e. 28th May) birding trip in Pangolakha WLS, when our search was on for beautiful Monals; suddenly we heard the call of satyr and searched for it alongside the slopes of zig-zag road. It was perched downhill on a parapet(on a abandoned landslide road) around 40 yards away from where tour participants stood. All the participants got some decent images of this rare beauty.



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In general bird nomenclature consist of after some ornithologists or the place it is/was found abundantly or the coloration of body parts; but the nomenclature of "Satyr Tragopan" has been derived from Greco-roman mythology - A drunken, lustful God who stays in deep woodland.


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    1. Thanks a lot Susan, believe it or not, sometimes we feel God is around us, though we can't see Him.
      Everytime I visit Sikkim, I hear the call of this specie, but saw it in May '15. :-). This is how rare it was :-).

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