Male Blyth’s Tragopan finds new home

[caption id="attachment_107441" align="alignleft" width="300"] The male Tragopan said to have been donated by a family from Zunheboto.[/caption] Dimapur, April 5 (EMN): The Blyth’s Tragopan Conservation & Breeding Centre in Kohima has a new member now: A male Tragopan blythii blythii said to have been donated by a family from Zunheboto. Keneikrul, officer in-charge of the Blyth’s Tragopan Conservation & Breeding Centre in Kohima issued a oppress release informing about the new member of the sanctuary. Inato Khujumi and his family, of Niu Colony in Zunheboto, ‘generously donated’ a male Tragopan blythii blythii to the Blyths Tragopan Conservation & Breeding Centre in Kohima, the sanctuary’ management informed in a press release to the media on Wednesday. The officer and staffers of the centre has expressed appreciation to the donor as well as to the district forest officer of Zunheboto Tokaho Kinimi “who has kindly transported and released the pheasant to the centre.” “The donated bird has been kept in quarantine condition and will be allowed to interact with the existing stock after a specified time. The annual breeding season of the Tragopan blythii blythii has begun this month and it may be mentioned that the calls of the male tragopan is prominently heard during dawn and dusk hours in places where they are found,” the press release informed. The centre stated to be looking forward to a successful breeding season.