Bar-tailed Trogon - BirdForum Opus

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Apaloderma vittatum

Photo by Valéry Schollaert
Tanzania, 2010

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.)

Photo by Tom Tarrant
Bwindi NP, south-western Uganda

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:

• Nigeria and Cameroon to Angola, western Zaire, western Uganda; Bioko

Habitat

High altitude forests.

References

1. 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.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Bar-tailed Trogon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 16 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Bar-tailed_Trogon

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