Bar-tailed Trogon (Apaloderma vittatum)

Family
Trogonidae (Trogons)

Size
28 cm

First Described (Guide)
Shelley, 1882

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. From 900 - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia.

Mountains in south-eastern Nigeria, north-western Cameroon, western Angola (Mt Moco); Bioko (Fernando P�o); also Albertine Rift in eastern Zaire, western Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, and mountains in Kenya, Tanzania, north-eastern Zambia, Malawi and northern Mozambique (Mt Namuli).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (71)...)

Bar-tailed Trogon (Apaloderma vittatum) [XC514420]
by Louis A. Hansen from Dibililo camp, Mafwemiro forest, Mpwapwa, Dodoma Region, Tanzania (call)

Bar-tailed Trogon (Apaloderma vittatum) [XC182164]
by Jacob C. Cooper from Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda (call)

Subspecies
Population in western half of Africa sometimes separated subspecifically as camerunense, and birds from Bioko (Fernando P�o) �occasionally further separated as francisci, but characters apparently not constant for either of these forms.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

vittatum Shelley, 1882 - South-eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon; central Angola; Uganda and eastern DR Congo; Kenya to Mozambique.
camerunensis Reichenow, 1902 - Nigeria, Cameroon, and Bioko to Angola, western Democratic Republic of the Congo, and western Uganda.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Bar-tailed Trogon (Apaloderma vittatum) - 10 files

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