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Narina Trogon ( female )

another one with suitable colors for Christmas ....

 

Taken in a Sand Forest area in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, in June 2017

 

The Narina Trogon is the most widespread of the 3 African trogon species. It lives in riverine and lowland forest in Southern and Eastern Africa where it sits upright in the canopy, typically with its back to the outside.

It is an insectivore.

 

apaloderma narina

narinatrogon

trogon narina

Narinatrogon

 

Sand Forest is an increasingly rare habitat found in Kwazulu Natal (South Africa) and southern Mozambique. Many interesting mammals and birds inhabit these beautiful forests

 

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