[order] TROGONIFORMES | [family] Trogonidae | [latin] Apalharpactes mackloti | [authority] Muller, 1835 | [UK] Sumatran Trogon | [FR] Trogon de Sumatra | [DE] Macklottrogon | [ES] Trogon de Sumatra | [NL] Sumatra Trogon
Monotypic species
Genus
Apalharpactes is a genus of birds in the Trogonidae family. They are restricted to humid highland forest on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. Unlike all other Asian trogons, their plumage is mainly green above and yellow below. Compared to most trogons, the sexual dimorphism is relatively small. The two species in the genus resemble each other, but A. reinwardtii is larger than A. mackloti, and the male A. mackloti has a chestnut rump-patch, which A. reinwardtii lacks. They feed on arthropods, small lizards and fruit. The members of Apalharpactes are sometimes placed in the genus Harpactes instead. The two species of Apalharpactes were formerly treated as conspecific under the name Red-billed Trogon or Blue-tailed Trogon (Apalharpactes reinwardtii, with mackloti as a subspecies).
Male yellow-green head and blue-green upperparts. Wingpanel yellowish barred. chestnut rump and a blue tail. Yellow throat and belly, grey-green breastband. Red bill, blue eye ring and orange feet. Female has different wing-barring more narrow and more buff.
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Oriental Region : Sumatra
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Clutch size is 1-2 eggs, no further data.
Forages mostly for insects of all kinds. Also fruit and on occasion small reptiles.
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This species has a very large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
It is endemic to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Presumed sedentary, but not well documented
