What to Know About the Narina Trogon in Uganda?

The Narina Trogon in Uganda is one of the African Uganda Bird Species seen during Birding Tours. It is a beautiful bird that was named after the beautiful woman called Narina, A KhoiKhoi in origin.

The Narina Trogon was named by the most considered Africa’s finest ornithologist, Fracois Le Vaillant from France who had Fancy for a native woman in cape town.

To Le Vaillant, he had seen nothing beautiful like this beautiful green and bird. He then decided to name is after the cute late he had fallen for and had steamy affair with.

The generic name Apaloderma means ‘thin skinned’, which was given to the family because of its very thin skin that tears easily when skinned!

This beautiful green and red Narina trogon bird of the family Trogonidae is a medium sized bird inhabiting the forests and woodlands of the Afrotropics.

In Uganda, the Narina Trogon can be found in the wooded Royal mile of Budongo forest.

How Does the Narina Trogon in Uganda Look Like?

The Narina Trogon is a beautiful bird with vivid, gingery green upper plumage. The color of the more is brighter.

Bothe sexes have metallic blue-green gloss on the tail feathers the three outside rectices on both sides on the under tail give a white appearance to the bird because they are streaked and fringed white.

The wing coverts are greyer. The under plumage, bare, green and eye flanges are bright amaranth red especially among the males.

To the females, the face and chest are brown, the under plumage and the skin orbiting the eyes is duller red.

The juveniles are similar to their mothers only that their inner wings are distinct white and less distinct gape and eye flanges.

How Does the Narina Trogon in Uganda Sing and Make Calls?

The male Narina Trogon expands its bare, blue-green throat patch and give a harsh and low recurrent hoot when attracting the females or defending their nesting grounds.

How Does the Narina Trogon in Uganda Feed?

The Narina Trogon forages mostly on invertebrates like caterpillars, spiders and mantids, buts can occasionally eat rarely reptiles.

It forages by a perching motionlessly, sometimes rolling the head side by side, up and down searching for prey. It hastily catches prey upon sight.

How Does the Narina Trogon in Uganda nest?

The Narina trogon nests in trees cavities which are generally hard to find in the evergreen lowland and Afromontane forests.

How Does the Narina Trogon in Uganda Breed?

The Narina trogon is a steady bird with strictly one partner and lonely nester. Their courtship displays include ‘floating lek’ where a group of 3-7 males gather to aerially chase each other.

And the females identify and pick out their partners. This display lasts for some days and then the bonded pair locates the nest site.

How Does the Narina Trogon in Uganda Reproduce?

Females lay 2-4 eggs in the months from November to February which is their breeding season. Incubation of eggs is done by both sexes for a period between 16 to 21 days.

Feeding of chicks is mostly done by their father approximately 3 time an hour with small insects.

Brooding of chicks is done when the chicks are still very young and but leaving the nest is at 25-25days old. The chicks remain with parents for more time, even months before fledging.