Javan Trogon

The Javan Trogon, or Reinwardt's Trogon, of course owes its name to its geographical location, with the scientific name coming from the Dutch naturalist and botanist Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773-1854). In 1822, Dutch zoologist Jacob Temminck (the field sandpiper!), named this trogon in tribute to Reinwardt. Very close to the Sumatran Trogon, with which it forms the Apalharpactes genus, it is bigger and almost the same colour. A strong orange-red beak and a broad cobalt blue orbital circle surrounding the dark brown iris are unmistakable elements; a yellow-blue protrusion of skin beyond the beak highlights the eye, this protrusion is much more blue in Sumatran Trogons. The head is olive-brown with pale green hues, the throat is yellow and the top of the chest has a wide band of the same colour as the head, the belly is golden yellow and takes on an orange tinge near the wings. The mantle, back and scapulars are green with blue reflections, Reinwardt's Trogon does not have a brown dorsal stripe like the Sumatran Trogon, the green-black coverts are horizontally vermiculated with pale yellow stripes and the remiges are black with very clear white margins. The outer rectrices are anthracite-green tinged with blue metallic reflections, and are framed in white on the edges and ends, the central rectrices are dark green with metallic blue hues. The female is identical to her partner, the yellow colour of the belly is paler and the vermiculations of the coverts are brown-fawn rather than yellow. In both sexes the tarsi are orange. The juveniles have a browner than green hue on the back, the belly is cinnamon spotted with white, the vermiculations of the coverts are brown and white, the beak is orange and the orbital circle is pale blue.