Family Trogons (Trogonidae)
Least Concern
Bar-tailed Trogon (Apaloderma vittatum)
Taxonomy
French: Trogon à queue barrée German: Bergtrogon Spanish: Trogón montano
Taxonomy:
Hapaloderma vittatum
Shelley
, 1882,Mamboio, Tanzania
.Distribution:
Mountains in SE Nigeria, NW Cameroon, Bioko, W Angola (Mt Moco); also Albertine Rift in E DRCongo, W Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, and mountains in Kenya, Tanzania, NE Zambia, Malawi and N Mozambique (Mt Namuli).
Descriptive notes
c. 28–30 cm; 55 g. Male with bill yellow or greenish-yellow; patches of bare skin below eye yellow or orange, above eye yellow or grey; head and throat blue-black with... read more
Voice
Territorial call a series of 7–14 sharp, high-pitched “wup” or “uyú... read more
Habitat
Usually in mid-stratum (4–20 m, but seldom lower than 8 m) of moist montane forest at 900... read more
Food and feeding
Canopy insects, mainly smooth caterpillars, also Orthoptera, moths and beetles. Caterpillars and moths noted as preferred prey in Malawi;... read more
Breeding
Nov–Jan in Bioko, Oct and Dec–Feb in Cameroon, Feb–May in Zaire, Mar in Uganda, Nov–Feb in Kenya (in and after... read more
Movements
Resident, with some vertical displacement in non-breeding season in all parts of range; also other... read more
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened. Not uncommon on Obudu Plateau, Nigeria; in Cameroon, locally common on Mt Kupé, less so on five other mountains in W highlands; fairly... read more
Has on occasion been separated in monospecific genus Heterotrogon. Population in W half of Africa sometimes separated subspecifically as camerunense, and birds from Bioko occasionally further separated as francisci, but characters apparently not constant for either of these forms. Monotypic.