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- Apaloderma vittatum
Identification
28 cm
Male:
- Blue-black head with bronze lustre
- Yellow to orange patches of bare skin below the eye
- Yellow or grey patch above the eye
- Violet to blue-green upper breast
- Red underparts
- Green back
- Blue-black tail
- Yellow bill and feet
Female
- Brown head (with less bare skin than the male)
- Light gingery throat and breast
Immature: Similar to female
- White belly
- Pale wing spots (formed by the tips of the wing coverts and inner secondaries.)
Distribution
Sub-Saharan Africa:
Western Africa: Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola
Eastern Africa: Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi
African Islands: Gulf of Guinea Islands, Bioko (Fernando Po)
Taxonomy
Subspecies[1]
There are 2 subspecies
- A. v. vittatum:
- Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique
- A. v. camerunensis:
Habitat
High altitude forests.
Behaviour
References
- Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
- Avibase
- Wikipedia
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Bar-tailed Trogon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 24 September 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Bar-tailed_Trogon
