Narina Trogon
Trogons are a family of birds with thirty-nine species that occur all around the tropics. There are 24 species in tropical Central and South America, 12 species in Southeast Asia, and three species in Africa, including the Narina Trogon. The name Trogon comes from the Greek for gnawing because Trogons excavate their own nest cavity in trees. The Narina Trogon was named by the great French naturalist Francois Le Vaillant after his African lover. He said "I found her name difficult to be pronounced, disagreeable to the ear, and very insignificant according to my ideas. I therefore gave her a new one and called her Narina, which in the Hottentot language signifies a flower."
The Narina Trogon has a wide range in forests of sub-Saharan Africa and this singing male was photographed near Lake Langanao in Ethiopia. If you look carefully you can see it has zygodactylous feet (two toes forwards two toes back) which it shares with Cuckoos, Woodpeckers and a few other birds.
Narina Trogon
Trogons are a family of birds with thirty-nine species that occur all around the tropics. There are 24 species in tropical Central and South America, 12 species in Southeast Asia, and three species in Africa, including the Narina Trogon. The name Trogon comes from the Greek for gnawing because Trogons excavate their own nest cavity in trees. The Narina Trogon was named by the great French naturalist Francois Le Vaillant after his African lover. He said "I found her name difficult to be pronounced, disagreeable to the ear, and very insignificant according to my ideas. I therefore gave her a new one and called her Narina, which in the Hottentot language signifies a flower."
The Narina Trogon has a wide range in forests of sub-Saharan Africa and this singing male was photographed near Lake Langanao in Ethiopia. If you look carefully you can see it has zygodactylous feet (two toes forwards two toes back) which it shares with Cuckoos, Woodpeckers and a few other birds.