Bar-tailed Trogon

Taxobox
name = Bar-tailed Trogon

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status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Trogoniformes
familia = Trogonidae
genus = "Apaloderma"
species = "A. vittatum"
binomial = "Apaloderma vittatum"
binomial_authority = Shelley, 1882
synonyms = The Bar-tailed Trogon ("Apaloderma vittatum") is a species of bird in the Trogonidae family.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. [BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/47638/all Apaloderma vittatum] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 28 July 2007.] It lives in forests; its preferred altitude, above about 1600 metres (1 mile), is typically higher than that of the Narina Trogon, but the two occur together in some places.cite book | author = Zimmerman, Dale A., Donald A. Turner, and David J. Pearson | year = 1999 | title = Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania | publisher = Princeton University Press | pages = 134–135, 386 | id = ISBN 0-691-01022-6]

The Bar-tailed Trogon averages about 28 cm (11 inches) long. The bill and feet are yellow, and the tail, long and broad as usual for trogons, has the underside narrowly barred with black and white. The male's head is blue-black with bronze iridescence. Below the eye are two yellow or orange patches of bare skin; above the eye is a yellow or grey patch. The upper breast is iridescent from violet to blue-green; the rest of the underparts are red. The back is green and the upper surface of the tail is blue-black or purple-black. The female's head is brown with less ornamental bare skin and its throat and breast are light cinnamon; otherwise it resembles the male. The immature is similar to the female, but has a white belly and pale spots on the wings formed by the tips of the wing coverts and inner secondaries.

The vocalisations are described as a yelping crescendo, "yaow, yow, yow, yow…" or "wuk-wuk-wuk-wuk…"." The female gives "a whining "chee-uu"."

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