Narina Trogon - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo by Andrew S
Ethiopia, December 2004

Apaloderma narina

Identification

30–32 cm (11¾-12½ in)
Male

• Bill: yellow, with pale blue flashes
• Green upperparts
• Grey wing
• Bright red underparts
• Patches of blue skin on face

Female': brown face, purplish green plumage, blue circle around each eye and duller red underparts.

Distribution

Sierra Leone to eastern South Africa.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Female
Photo by volker sthamer
Langano, Ethiopia, March 2016

Apaloderma narina has four subspecies:^[1]

• A. n. narina

• Highlands of Ethiopia to Angola and South Africa

• A. n. littorale

• Coastal lowlands from Somalia to KwaZulu-Natal; also Zanzibar

• A. n. brachyurum

• South-eastern Nigeria and southern Cameroon to DR Congo and Uganda

• A. n. constantia

• Sierra Leone, Liberia and southern Guinea to Ghana

Habitat

Forests

Behaviour

Breeding

They nest in tree hollows.

Diet

Their diet consists mostly of insects, particularly caterpillars (but not hairy ones) and small invertebrates.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved October 2016)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Narina Trogon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 28 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Narina_Trogon

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