Where can I find
Bar Tailed Trogon in Uganda?
The distribution of Bar Tailed Trogon is limited in high altitude place,
such as Echuya forest reserve
Please be careful to find the bird as Johnnie is telling you in the radio program.
Press "read more" for the full Script of the program
NFA bird Podcast:
I am Johnnie Kamugisha.
The bird for today is the Bar-tailed Trogon.
This is a
beautiful secretive long tailed forest bird but that sits motionless for a long
time.
It is about 30 cm
long with yellow bill and feet.
The under side of
the tail has black and white fine bar rings.
The breast and B ellie
is red.
The head of the
female is brown and male's is blue-black.
The back is green.
It is one bird
that when it calls for example, you are in the forest and you hear it calling
like, (Johnnie imitating calls)
That’s second
call, if you don’t know it, you will think it is 2-3km away, when it is right
in front of you, since it is motionless you will not see it. That is one reason
you need Johnnie to take you to Echya forest to show it to you.
They are high
altitude birds and so found in Bwindi, Echuya forest, Mgahinga among others.
The bird for today
is the Bar-tailed Trogon and am Johnnie Kamugisha.
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